Re: Please try to freeze uploads of meta-gnome related packages
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:31:58PM +0100, Björn Stenberg wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > > - meta-gnome2 has unsatisfiable dependencies:
> > > - gnome needs rhythmbox compiled for mips
> > > - gnome-desktop-environment needs epiphany-browser compiled for mips
> > > - gnome-office needs planner compiled for m68k, mips, sparc
> >
> > Those don't make it not a valid candidate.
>
> Oh, ok. Why is that?
It's a hack so that Architecture: all packages don't have to wait for
their dependencies on all architectures when that might take essentially
forever. They're special-cased to look only on i386.
IIRC, aj once said that he didn't much like this but that it was
necessary in practice.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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