On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:06:42AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > > You'd lose the notion of it being useful on other architectures (that's the > > arch:all -> arch:i386 Raphael's talking about), though. But then packages > > like qemu-system would just depend on openbios-sparc:sparc, no? If you > > don't need to deal with them directly that'd be pretty transparent.
> The current Multi-Arch spec doesn't allow for such explicit dependencies > (targeting a precise foreign architecture). > But you can have "openbios-sparc:any" and assuming openbios-sparc is only > available on sparc, the right package would be picked. Well, the current Multi-Arch spec doesn't allow for it precisely because we want ports to remain self-hosting in the first round. So if openbios-sparc is only available as an Architecture: sparc package, a Depends: openbios-sparc:any is as bad as Depends: openbios-sparc:sparc for ensuring packages remain installable within a single architecture. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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