Re: Architecture all

To: Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>
Cc: Christopher C Chimelis <chris@beezer.med.miami.edu>, Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Architecture all
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:44:33 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 19971021134433.28011@test.legislate.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19971021131539.41196@kite>; from Joey Hess on Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 01:15:39PM -0400
References: <[🔎] q9oh4jmqi1.fsf@fphp03.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.971021073331.25180A-100000@beezer.med.miami.edu> <[🔎] 19971021131539.41196@kite>

Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org> wrote:
> Package foo is i386 only
> Package bar depends on package foo, but is arch: all
> 
> Should package bar be changed over to arch: i386? 
>
> Personally, I think not - package foo could always get a arch: all
> version someday.
>
> However, could it be a problem for users of some other architecture,
> who see bar in dselect, try to select it, and get an unfullfilled
> dependancy on foo?

This should be considered a bug in dselect.

-- 
Raul


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