retitle 585767 Meta Bug: Convert all deps on type-handling to arch-wildcards and remove type-handling severity 585767 wishlist thanks
On Jun 21, 2010, at 15:56, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:35:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >> * Aurelien Jarno | 2010-06-14 12:00:14 [+0200]: >>>> libudev-dev (>= 0.139) | not+linux-gnu, >>>> libhal-dev (>= 0.5.10) | linux-gnu, >>> >>> I don't think it's a bug. The system type on those architectures is >>> "linux-gnuspe" or "linux-gnueabi", not "linux-gnu". If you only want to >>> match on the OS, you should use the "linux" and "not+linux" instead. >> >> This make sense. >> >> So I'm going to mass open bugs against every package which uses >> linux-gnu and tell them to use linux-any which becomes policy once >> #530687. Is this intended? There is actually no reason to use linux-gnu >> instead of linux-any, is there[0]? >> Does the new policy make type-handling obselete since dpkg provides it? > > type-handling has always been a bit hack, with the (long term) goal to > remove it. It had no replacement until not so long ago, as the build > daemons software was not able to handle it. Now that it has been fixed, > we should certainly get rid of it. Ok, just to confirm, dependencies should be rewritten along these lines: "$DEPENDENCY | not+linux-gnu" => "$DEPENDENCY [linux-any]" "$DEPENDENCY | not+linux" => "$DEPENDENCY [linux-any]" "$DEPENDENCY | linux-gnu" => "$DEPENDENCY [!linux-any]" "$DEPENDENCY | linux" => "$DEPENDENCY [!linux-any]" "$DEPENDENCY | not+hurd" => "$DEPENDENCY [hurd-any]" "$DEPENDENCY | hurd" => "$DEPENDENCY [!hurd-any]" Since there are already a number of packages with dependencies like these in squeeze, it should be possible for maintainers to apply these changes right now, correct? Thanks again! Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
