Control: retitle -1 apt: the apt_preferences(5) man page is not multiarch aware Control: reassign -1 apt Control: found -1 1.6~alpha4 Control: found -1 1.6~alpha6
Reassigning to apt since this is where the apt_preferences(5) man page is. On 2017-11-07 13:27:21 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > It's not. Patterns match package names. The colon is not > part of the package name, and the architecture is not either > - and the architecture is matched by architecture wildcards (as > in build-depends arch lists), not glob or regex. > > So for example, > > /libfreetype6/:linux-any > > is a valid Package line. As a special exception to the architecture > wildcard rules, apt also accepts * in place of any, so you can > write: > > /libfreetype6/:linux-* > /libfreetype6/:* > > > And this matches the documented behavior: The regex or glob pattern > is expanded into a list of names, for example libfreetype6: > > Package: libfreetype6 > > this does not match libfreetype6:i386 either, you'd have to specify > > Package: libfreetype6:any > > This is a documentation issue. There are 2 things to fix in the apt_preferences(5) man page, and perhaps in some other places: 1. The description for multiarch. Currently, there is nothing about multiarch. 2. The examples: the "Package: *" lines are incorrect if the goal is to match all packages (for multiarch machines). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
