David Kalnischkies wrote: > in this example: > Package: foobar > Architecture: amd64 > Depends: package-bar > that last line is in fact read as: > Depends: package-bar:amd64 Why? I don't think that would help humans any more than reading it as Depends: package-bar (>= -infinity) (if there were a syntax for -∞). Maybe you are saying that reading it this way makes the implementation simpler?