On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:22:11AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Package: kcontrol > Version: various > Severity: normal > > This is a semi-automated bug report based on scanning the contents of > binary .deb files in the unstable Debian archive. Its all well and good to make motions about making arch independent packages, but with the archive not tracking arch all packages for various archs its not really a usable thing to do. Especially for libraries. To see what happens when arch independent data is split out just look at qt-x11-free. You end up with packages not being installable due to exact dependencies. example: Foo Arch: any (eg i386) Depends: Bar (= Source-Version) Bar Arch: all When a new source is uploaded Foo cannot be installed on any arch until it is recompiled, which in real life can be months. What should be done is the mirror track Arch: all packages for each architecture so that packages never get into an uninstallable state. This is not how it currently works, so eg anything that builds against qt fails to build until qt itself is built everywhere. It is a huge fscking mess. Chris
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