Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

[Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:31:06AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Adrian Bunk]
> > If you can't fulfill a Recommends, that's a violation of section
> > 2.2.1.  of your policy.
> 
> That is not how I interpret section 2.2.1.
> 
> [http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main]
> > 2.2.1 The main section
> >
> > Every package in main and non-US/main must comply with the DFSG
> > (Debian Free Software Guidelines).
> > 
> > In addition, the packages in main
> >
> > - must not require a package outside of main for compilation or
> >   execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends",
> >   "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main
> >   package),
> > - must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them, and
> > - must meet all policy requirements presented in this manual.
> > 
> > Similarly, the packages in non-US/main
> > 
> > - must not require a package outside of main or non-US/main for
> >   compilation or execution,
> > - must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them,
> > - must meet all policy requirements presented in this manual.
> 
> Both grub and dmidecode are in main, so in my view it should be OK to
> recommend both of them.  The fact that they are missing on some archs
> does not make it a policy violation to recommend them.

I read your policy in a way that these things must be fulfilled on 
all architectures.

Consider gs and gs-esp weren't available on all architectures (yes, this 
is a purely theoretical example...) - in this case adependency on gs 
would pull gs-afpl on these architectures.

This doesn't sound correct.

> > - Depends: grub | not+i386
> 
> Is this working in sarge?  I don't believe it will work with the
> current task generation code.

Yes.

It has nothing to do with any task generation code, it's pretty simple:
  apt-cache show type-handling

A short explanation was in [1].

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg00011.html

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