Control: tags -1 + patch On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 08:05 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > britney will need to be taught to understand how to migrate packages in > > a world with cross-architecture dependencies. > > At the very least, things like "foo/i386 depends on bar:amd64" should > > work. Might there be merit to also checking the values of the m-a > > control fields and verifying that the resulting migration makes sense? > > You know that the current multi-arch spec doesn't allow this yet?
Indeed, although I'd somehow overlooked it at the time. > Currently, you only have to cope with dependencies like "bar:any". I don't > even > think that you want to allow foo/i386 to migrate just because bar:amd64 is > available. All architectures should still be self-contained. Colin Watson provided a patch in http://lists.debian.org/20130916140255.gf32...@riva.ucam.org which should address this case. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
