Re: Arch-dependent Depends

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:34:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Different situation. The ocaml debs have the same depends on every
>> architecture for the individual deb. They might differ between debs
>> but not between archs for one arch:all deb.
>
> Nope. I was talking about OCaml programs shipped as arch:any packages
> and built as native code executables on some archs and as bytecode
> executables on some other [1]. In such cases you have arch:any packages
> which have different dependencies on different architectures.

Different debs. Each architecture has its own foo_1.2-3_arch.deb with
their own depends. As such the depends can be generated at compile
time.

With an arch: all deb the depends change at install time depending on
the architecture in use.

MfG
        Goswin