On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:19:04PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > You know, dpkg-gencontrol (since 1.10.11) supports arch specifiers for > all dependency fields. Yes. > So instead of using substvars for the arch-dependant deps, you can just > do like this: > > Depends: ..., xlibosmesa3-dbg [alpha i386 ia64 powerpc], ... Yes. > Of course, you need to add a versioned build-dep on dpkg-dev, making > backports more work. Which is exactly why I didn't use that feature. Though if you don't start touching branches/4.3.0/woody soon, I may decide that nobody's going to be backporting it, and make it more difficult. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | No executive devotes much effort to Debian GNU/Linux | proving himself wrong. branden@debian.org | -- Laurence J. Peter http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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