Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:02:34 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > Maybe type-handling could be split with an empty package whose sole > > > > purpose is to "Provides" some virtual packages while type-handling > > > >

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> Or we can change type-handling too. Apparently xorg only uses the fact >>> that type-handling provides not+sparc but it doesn't use the type-handling >>> program which is the real user of dpkg-architecture. Is that right? >>

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Or we can change type-handling too. Apparently xorg only uses the fact > > that type-handling provides not+sparc but it doesn't use the type-handling > > program which is the real user of dpkg-architecture. Is that right? > > Yes, that's correct. > >

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 00:14:53 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Or we can change type-handling too. Apparently xorg only uses the fact > that type-handling provides not+sparc but it doesn't use the type-handling > program which is the real user of dpkg-architecture. Is that right? > Yes, that's

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:42:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Please could you move dpkg-architecture from dpkg-dev to dpkg ? It seems > > > that > > > because of this, it turns out that having the

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:42:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Robert Millan wrote: > > Please could you move dpkg-architecture from dpkg-dev to dpkg ? It seems > > that > > because of this, it turns out that having the xorg meta-package installed > > requires dpkg-dev an

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Robert Millan wrote: > Please could you move dpkg-architecture from dpkg-dev to dpkg ? It seems that > because of this, it turns out that having the xorg meta-package installed > requires dpkg-dev and hence binutils (because of type-handling). dpkg-architecture is perl and th

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Millan
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.25 Severity: normal Please could you move dpkg-architecture from dpkg-dev to dpkg ? It seems that because of this, it turns out that having the xorg meta-package installed requires dpkg-dev and hence binutils (because of type-handling). -- System Information: Debi