On 2018-01-07 19:23 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > > > If we take Multi-Arch serious, this shouldn't be the case, right? > > I guess the release team might accept patches to britney for this but > I've also a vague memory that they prefer arches to be self-contained. This issue affects so few packages that no-one has put in the effort to make this (automatic migration with cross-arch dependencies) work. I talked about it with respect to doing this for cross-compilers and they were OK with doing this properly this so long as there was a good reason (but in the end cross-compilers were done a different way so there was no need). In the meantime there is a rather hacky whitelist for the few packages that do need this (basically wine IIRC). So yes there is sort-of an assumption that architectures are self-contained, but clearly we'd like things to work as well as possible for the cases where they aren't/can't be. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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