Hi! On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:48:44 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Sebastian Andrzej Siewior] > > Since Debian-Policy 3.9.0 architecture wild cards are allowed so this > > dependency would become > > libudev-dev (>= 0.139) [linux-any] > > and the type-handling aliases (which are hack according to #585767) > > could go. Based on this and the fact that some packages are already > > using them I filled some bugs [0]. > > Policy only allows these wildcards for the build-time fields. In > libgnomevfs2-dev (subject of bug 587877), it is a regular Depends:, and > your wildcard solution will not work.
Policy will be allowing this in next revision (3.9.0+). > Unless, that is, dpkg-gencontrol expands the wildcard appropriately at > build time - but I don't think it does. Yes, dpkg-gencontrol does trim the architecture restrictions on binary dependency fields, and removes the dependencies if they are not fullfilled for the host architecture. See #400322 for further details. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org