Re: arch all package's missing dependency on i386 prevents testing migration
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Hi all,
>> The package in question, circlator, depends on two
>> architecture-dependent packages that can only build on amd64 and
>> kfreebsd-amd64 currently. The package cannot migrate to testing
>> because those dependencies are not available for i386 [1].
>>
>> I am hoping there is a better solution to this problem than to
>> work around this by changing this package's build architecture
>> from "all" to "any-amd64"
>
> That's not a workaround, it is the correct fix for the error in
> the original upload. The package cannot work on all architectures -
> the fact that this is because of dependencies rather than the code
> within the package is irrelevant. Unless the code in the package
> can *transparently* omit the need for the dependency on
> architectures where that dependency does not exist, then the
> package is not arch:all. Installation alone is insufficient, the
> package needs to be usable on all the architectures in the
> Architecture list.
Interesting, this was new to me. This would mean that, in this case,
once the dependency becomes available on another architecture, the
architecture list in all dependent packages would need to be updated
to include that newly available architecture (given that this one
dependency was the reason for the dependent package not being arch:all)?
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