Bug#544004: depends-on-metapackage: too strict a defintion for metapackage
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:56:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org> writes:
> > both education-desktop-other and ltsp-client are metapackages, or nearly
> > so, containing only standard /usr/share/doc files, lintian overrides
...snip...
> > how does lintian determine if a package is a "true" metapackage?
>
> Lintian doesn't think that either are metapackages because they are both
> arch-dependent and it usually doesn't make any sense for a metapackage to
> be arch-dependent. Why *are* they arch-dependent?
to have architecture-specific dependencies. is this unreasonable for a
metapackage?
live well,
vagrant
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