Re: debian/control: `Suggests: package [arch]' possible?
On 9/28/07, Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
> Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net> (28/09/2007):
> > In this special case, the package will suggest povray.
>
> Arg, povray… Yafray FTW.
It is coming very very slowly, but povray will be free. The team
already bought the copyright to moray (the GUI modeller) will GPL it:
http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.php
http://www.stmuc.com/moray/menews.html
> > But povray is only available for i386.
>
> Isn't non-free supposed to be autobuilt?
Packages need to be whitelisted. The person to contact for this is aba IIRC.
> Or is povray only buildable on i386?
Upstream does MacOS versions since ages, so presumably not.
Per-arch Suggests does satisfy debcheck, just look at the suggests for nsis:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/nsis
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=unstable&package=nsis
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nsis/nsis_2.30-1.diff.gz
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bye,
pabs
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