Re: How important is "Architecture: any" (Was: Downloads things, ...)

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Andreas Tille]
> I would regard this as pure overkill for very less use.  IMHO it
> would be fine to build the control file on the most feature rich
> architceture which is probably i386 and live mit not fullfilled
> Recommends on some not so good supported archs.
> 
> Am I missing something?

I guess you might be right, now.  Earlier, we used depends to pull in
packages using the meta packages during installation.  Now we use
tasksel tasks, which are more forgiving about missing packages.  We
did have a problem with the debian-edu package failing to propagate
into testing because it depended on arch-any packages that was missing
on some architecture.  Now that we are using recommends, and
recommends might even be installed by default, I guess the need is not
so high.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen