Re: Suggested improvements for handling Architecture independent packages

2008-03-13 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:20:28PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > I would like to suggest two major improvements related to packages > which are "Architecture: all". > > The first thing I want to suggest is the handling of dependencies. > When building a package, you can use "Depends: pa

Suggested improvements for handling Architecture independent packages

2008-03-13 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear readers: I would like to suggest two major improvements related to packages which are "Architecture: all". The first thing I want to suggest is the handling of dependencies. When building a package, you can use "Depends: package [arch1 arch2]" which means that it depends on package only on t