Bug#252657: dpkg-dev: [arch]-specific Depends broken (see #170575)
On 2005-03-18 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:42 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > reopen 252657
> > # more clarification needed, I do not intend to play BTS ping-pong
> Uh, my bad -- the "-done" on that was accidental. This bug should
> remain open.
Splendid.
[...]
> > * dpkg 1.10.11 did not add support for arch-specific entries in
> > *Depends* and closing 170575 with dpkg 1.10.11's changelog was an
> > error.
> From what I can tell, this is correct. Support for per-arch BUILD
> dependencies was added, not general dependencies.
Thanks for clearing this up.
Just for the record: For me personally this is just nice to have
not urgent, as it can be worked around with a substitution variables.
cu andreas
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