Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2013-01-06 Thread Wookey
+++ Charles Plessy [2013-01-06 18:32 +0900]: > Le Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:05:13AM -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > > > In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should > > be Multi-Arch: foreign. This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin, > > Steve L. and me in which

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2013-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:05:13AM -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should > be Multi-Arch: foreign. This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin, > Steve L. and me in which I formulated the proposal: > > If a package is 'A

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 12:14:30AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Steve Langasek , 2012-12-08, 14:18: > >it might be worth considering whether we could instead solve all > >the real instances of A->B->C/D in the archive by converting all B > >to Arch: any in wheezy, and then just allowing the package

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve Langasek , 2012-12-08, 14:18: it might be worth considering whether we could instead solve all the real instances of A->B->C/D in the archive by converting all B to Arch: any in wheezy, and then just allowing the package manager to treat *all* Arch: all packages as implicitly satisfying

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:20:00AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Helmut Grohne] > > I ask you not to use this proposal for the following reasons: > > * Given a package it is now much harder to see whether it is tagged M-A > >or not. Especially you can no longer determine the tagging by si

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:05:13AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should > be Multi-Arch: foreign. This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin, > Steve L. and me in which I formulated the proposal: > If a package is 'Architec

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 02:05:13 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should > be Multi-Arch: foreign. This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin, > Steve L. and me in which I formulated the proposal: > > If a package is 'Archit

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Helmut Grohne] > I ask you not to use this proposal for the following reasons: > > * Given a package it is now much harder to see whether it is tagged M-A >or not. Especially you can no longer determine the tagging by simple >examination of package lists. That's fair. Though I imagine

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:05:13AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should > be Multi-Arch: foreign. This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin, > Steve L. and me in which I formulated the proposal: > > If a package is 'Arch

Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2012-12-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should be Multi-Arch: foreign. This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin, Steve L. and me in which I formulated the proposal: If a package is 'Architecture: all', and all its dependencies are 'Multi-Arch: foreign' (inclu