Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time dependencies on binary packages
> Your naming is weird ;) s/ARCH/CPU/, s/OS/SYSTEM/ and I'm your
> friend.
If it makes you lucky, think the vars re-named :-) But it really makes
no difference, I meant exactly the same as you, i.e. ARCH == cpu.
> Looks good to me. I don't know how many logical operators we should
> support, but it goes in the right direction. I am also unsure about
> the colon (:) as seperator.
The | operator seems necessary when a package needs e.g.svglib on i386
and alpha and nowhere else. The ! operator is necessary to avoid
listings of all archs except one. Such lists have to be extended
whenever there's a new Debian arch, and this calls for bugs.
And I think the colon is as good or bad as anything else, so why not?
Roman
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