Re: Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture
On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 00:14:53 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Or we can change type-handling too. Apparently xorg only uses the fact
> that type-handling provides not+sparc but it doesn't use the type-handling
> program which is the real user of dpkg-architecture. Is that right?
>
Yes, that's correct.
> Maybe type-handling could be split with an empty package whose sole
> purpose is to "Provides" some virtual packages while type-handling
> stays the program with its dpkg-dev dependency.
>
> I think this solution would be my first preference.
>
My preference would be for dpkg to allow 'Depends: foo [arch]' in arch:all
packages, but failing that, I agree.
Cheers,
Julien
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