Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:56:19PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> I agree with the other comments questioning the logic of this very
> dependency. But also, I do not understand the argument above.
>
> What is wrong with [i386]?
It's not allowed in .debs, only in debian/control. dpkg doesn't support
[arch], and it's not allowed by policy.
> I seem to succesfully be able to use such construct with the lessdisks
> package (which is also arch: All).
/mirror/pool/main/l/lessdisks/lessdisks_0.5.3cvs.20040906-3_all.deb:
(...)
Package: lessdisks
Version: 0.5.3cvs.20040906-3
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Depends: coreutils | shellutils (>= 2.0.11-11), wget, binutils, nfs-kernel-server | nfs-server, lessdisks-easydialog, debconf, debootstrap
Recommends: dhcp3-server | dhcp, dialog, xdialog
Suggests: lessdisks-doc, ssh, sdm, dnsmasq, etherboot
Conflicts: lessdisks-terminal, lessdisks-xterminal, lessdisks-base, lessdisks-xbase, lessdisks-install
Replaces: lessdisks-install
Where?
--Jeroen
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