Re: dpkg-cross: calculating wrong dependencies?

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@debian.org>]

> Previous version GCC-4.1
>
> Package: libssp0-arm-cross
> Version: 4.1.1-19
> Section: devel
> Priority: extra
> Architecture: all
> Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>
> Source: gcc-4.1 (4.1.1ds2-19)
> Depends: gcc-4.1-base (= 4.1.1-19), libc6-arm-cross (>= 2.3.5-1),
> libc6-arm-dcv1 Provides: libssp0-arm-dcv1
>
> Here it depends on gcc-4.1-base, not on gcc-4.1-base-arm-cross. Why is
> it? I have no trouble installing gcc-4.1, but i do have trouble
> installing gcc-4.2 because of that dependency.

This is because of 'keepdeps' setting in the configuration file.

Once I thought that packages that don't provive libraries should not be 
dpkg-crossed.
Now - given what Neil Williams wrote in this thread - I don't know.