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Re: Dropping emchain in experimental, failure of apt-cross



On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:42:59 +0100
Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The latest changes in apt break apt-cross in lots of ugly and
> > unfixable ways. All it needs is for someone to file the bug and it
> > would have to be removed from Squeeze anyway. apt-cross was just
> > about OK until apt was "upgraded" *during* the release freeze in
> > ways that apt-cross can never support.
> 
> AFAICS, it gives some annoying and confusing output, but still does
> the job.

For simple tasks, it may be OK. Not sure if it will still work if the
~/.apt-cross directory is removed.
 
> Looking forward for `xapt'. Is `xapt' goal to be `pdebuild-cross'
> chain dependency solver or also it aims to be `apt-cross' replacement
> in Wheezy?

Both.

Wookey's changes mean that pdebuild-cross in experimental will only
work with xapt and xapt will be a new binary package to make that
easier. 

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