Bug#252657: dpkg-dev: [arch]-specific Depends broken (see #170575)
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Adam wrote that this is because of a parser error, that is not true, the
> parser is fine. dpkg simply doesn't support per-arch dependencies.
Correct, dpkg itself doesn't support it.
>
> > So there are three possibilities:
> >
> > * 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.
Wrong. You can have per-arch *regular* depends. dpkg-gencontrol just strips
out the tokens that don't apply for the current arch.
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