On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2008 10:51, Andreas Tille wrote:Well, interesting that you agree, but what is now the solution you suggest to implement?use Arch:any.
... based on packages that are available in i386? This was what I was working on my way back from Chemnitzer LinuxTage (Holger, you missed it again. Ask Henning who also was treveling from Hamburg whether it was worth the effort. ;-) ). I have to test it first, but I think it fixes all three bugs related to this topic. As you expect as well as me we will gather bugs about not fullfilled Recommends on other architectures sooner or later. My long term plan is to prepare debian/control.d/<arch> files as well as tasksel.desc.d/<arch> files in the source package and at build time pick the right one on each architecture. I call it long term plan because after gaining some experience in parsing Packages files when doing the autogenerated web pages I think it is better to rewrite the stuff that auto generates control and tasksel files. But this rewrite will need reasonable testing and verification which should not be done under preasure of an open RC bug which is currently the case. So I try to fix the current issues before next weekend as I described above and work for the long term on a real solution. Kind regards Andreas. PS: debian-custom list in CC - would love to continue this general discussion there. -- http://fam-tille.de