Hi Axel! Thank you very much for your kindness and for the clear explanation! That being so, wishlist seems to be the best option. Thanks again,
Fabio 2014-05-07 1:33 GMT+02:00 Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: retitle -1 wicd: Support for non-linux architectures > Control: tag -1 + upstream > > Hi Fabio, > > Fabio wrote: > > as already reported in #612501 bug for wicd-kde, it seems that > > wicd-curses cannot be installed on kfreebsd-i386 architecture, > > Those are different issues: > > wicd-kde was specifically built on kfreebsd-* as it was built for each > architecture separately. But all packages built by the wicd source > package are architecture-independent, hence cannot care about specific > architectures. > > This is a not so seldom case for architecture-independent packages > depending on architecture-specific packages not available on all > architectures, e.g. there are some architecture-independent packages > related to systemd (which is linux-only, too), but these packages are > available on kfreebsd-*, too, despite not being installable. > > If it's no regression (i.e. the packages were installable in the > past), this is usually not considered an issue at all. Hence > downgrading to wishlist and retitling accordingly. > > > I suppose the same issue exists on all wicd user interfaces > > (e.g. wicd-gtk) and on kfreebsd-amd64 too, although i didn't > > chek. > > It does. The same also counts for hurd-i386. > > Regards, Axel > -- > ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ > : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin > `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE > `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 >
