Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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 -∞).
In fact, that reading seems problematic, though I could easily be
missing something. If package-bar has "Multi-arch: foreign", then
isn't
Architecture: amd64
Depends: package-bar
satisfied by package-bar:i386, while
Architecture: amd64
Depends: package-bar:amd64
is not?
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