Scott Kitterman: > As discussed on IRC, here's a better patch. Here is what it does (I tested > all these) >
Hi Scott,
Thanks for the patch.
Unfortunately, I think we have misunderstood each other at some point.
In the below, I have assumed that "A to B" means that A has a symlinked
doc to /usr/share/doc/B and has added the related dependency for B.
> arch:any to arch:any - generates = binary:Version depends
>
> arch:all to arch:all - generates = binary:Version depends (as a special case
> this is the same as = source:Version, so it's good)
>
So far so good.
> arch:all to arch:any - generates >= source:Version depends to binNMUability
> is
> preserved
>
Personally I do /not/ consider this case policy compliant, nor do I
believe it /can/ be (with the correct wording of the policy). In this
case, you can (in theory) end up with a case (using partial upgrades)
where the copyright file of the arch:any does not match that of the
arch:all.
But since the arch:all link-docs, then we now provide incorrect
copyright information about the arch:all package.
Even if you were to add an upper bound, I can still (theoretically)
create new (non-binNMU) versions that satisfies the relations.
> arch:any to arch:all (no idea if this actually happens or not):
>
> For compat 9 or less: Prints warning and does generates nothing
> For compat 10: errors out the build
>
This case can be done correctly by using (= ${source:Version}). I was
hoping this was more common than the previous case.
> I think this matches what we discussed. I improved the log messages too.
>
> Scott K
>
>
Thanks,
~Niels
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