Re: Recommending packages not available in arch

2015-08-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU debian.org> writes: > my first reaction was that the intention of this paragraph is mainly to > keep the system uncontaminated from non-free and contrib, but while the I think that is correct. Furthermore, arch-qualifying Recommends is not possible in an arch:all p

Recommending packages not available in arch

2015-08-25 Thread Debian/GNU
hi all, recently on IRC, i asked why "to exclude specific archs in Recommends/Suggests?". the use case is, that some package "foo" might not be available for a specific arch (e.g. FTBFS on hurd-any), and package "bar" would still like to recommend it (since "bar" is used together with "foo" 'in a