On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:39:40PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > I remember, some time ago, there has been some discussion about treating > ubuntu as a "pseudo-arch", so that we could do something like: > Depends: foo | bar [ubuntu] > I also remember this proposal was rejected, or hostaged to say the least, > because in this case we should provide "pseudo-arches" for every Debian > derivative -- Ubuntu is a big one, but not the only one out there. More to the point, this causes unpleasant namespacing issues for the [] arch specifiers. We shouldn't mash this into the architecture specifier just because it's there; there are other ways to accomplish this already (e.g., substvars as mentioned up-thread). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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