Re: Please try to freeze uploads of meta-gnome related packages

[Björn Stenberg <bjorn@haxx.se>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I'm removing that output from my script then.

Thanks.

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Björn