Bug#695863: base-files: enable Multi-Arch for binary package base-files

2012-12-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 06:50:00PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > As we don't support upgrades which skip releases (i.e. Debian 4.0 to > > Debian 6.0, or Debian 5.0 to Debian 7.0), why don't we remove all > > those obsolete dependencies on essential pac

Bug#695863: base-files: enable Multi-Arch for binary package base-files

2012-12-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 06:50:00PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > As we don't support upgrades which skip releases (i.e. Debian 4.0 to > Debian 6.0, or Debian 5.0 to Debian 7.0), why don't we remove all > those obsolete dependencies on essential packages instead? That makes sense! I investigated th

Bug#695863: base-files: enable Multi-Arch for binary package base-files

2012-12-13 Thread Santiago Vila
El 13/12/12 18:12, Helmut Grohne escribió: Package: base-files Version: 7.0 Severity: normal User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: multiarch The base-files package is depended upon by a number of other tools such as rsync. Those dependencies are mostly versioned, because base-f

Bug#695863: base-files: enable Multi-Arch for binary package base-files

2012-12-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: base-files Version: 7.0 Severity: normal User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: multiarch The base-files package is depended upon by a number of other tools such as rsync. Those dependencies are mostly versioned, because base-files is essential. Nevertheless they restrict