Bug#655975: [PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-09-18 09:17, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 2013-09-18 6:33, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> I think we should take this opportunity to get rid of the "empty"
>> PREDEPENDS slot (i.e. have the MULTIARCH field replace PREDEPENDS).
>> There is no point in having the empty slot for PREDEPENDS; yours truly
>> was just too lazy to figure out how to remove it from the C code when I
>> merged PREDEPENDS into DEPENDS.
> 
> Seems reasonable; attached is a diff on top of the earlier patch that
> does that, and passes the testsuite (including live-data).
> 

Thanks,

> I've also attached a squashed diff showing the cumulative changes
> relative to the live code. I've left the "depends" array as-is because
> it's part of the underlying abstraction; I assume the four elements are
> intended to correspond to the fields which dpkg/apt consider as
> "dependency relations", i.e. pre-depends, depends, recommends and
> suggests. If we don't care about maintaining that in the abstraction
> then we could probably flatten depends from a deplistlist to a deplist.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam

I would probably go with the squashed diff (of the two approaches).
Personally, I wouldn't bother with flattening deplistlist to deplist.  I
would rather see us get rid of that C-module entirely instead.

~Niels