Bug#155998: Please close when appropriate

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

tag 155998 - woody
reassign 155998 project,dak
thanks

Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> Hello,
> there will be no more point release for woody and this bug is not
> security-related. You have not even replied to this bug. So I think it
> can be closed, correct?
>
> Greetings
>
>             Helge

This bug is still very much relevant. It affects woody (old-stable),
sarge (stable), etch (testing) and even sid (unstable).

The problem is that architecture independent packages are blindly
included on all architectures.

The example in the bug is:

foobar-data (all) depends foobar (any), foobar is not available for
this architecture.


I believe uninstallable architecture independent packages can and
should be filtered out in main for each architecture for all
releases (or from testing down maybe as part of britney).

MfG
        Goswin

PS: Reassigning this also to dak as that is to blame.