Greetings, I maintain a set of packages which depend openmpi which is missing on certain architectures. To get around the latter problem, I use arch-dependent Build-Depends to specify openmpi where available and lam otherwise (though the buildd report for hypre on s390 shows it doesn't seem to understand this directive). Because hypre upstream doesn't make static libs, and I got tired of making a new patch with every release, libhypre-dev is arch all without static libs. However, it needs to depend on openmpi on some arches, and lam4-dev on others. Using the same syntax as Build-Depends doesn't work. Is there a way to do this, or do I need to make libhypre-dev arch any and set the dep using substvars, even though its contents are arch-independent? I notice that Policy section 7.1 provides for arch-dependent Build-Deps, but there's nothing similar for Depends... [Please CC me in replies.] Thanks, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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