Hello Andreas,

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I do not think that there is any sense in having separate metapackages
> for Architecture=all.  The metapackages will be installed on a certain
> architecture.  For this architecture (i.e. amd64) you have a metapackage
> for instance
>
>     med-bio_<version>_amd64.deb
>
> there is no way to install any package
>
>     med-bio_<version>_all.deb
>
> in parallel.  So for every single architecture we need to create
> metapackages featuring the packages for this architecture plus those
> packages that are architecture = all which I expressed in my original
> examle query in sql/blendsd_change_dependency by
>
>   ...  architecture in ('$3', 'all' ))  ...
>
> and which in your python code properly was turned into
>
>   ...  architecture in ('{2}', 'all' )) ...
>
> Thanks I got the idea.

There is no point at all to turn this into
>
>   architecture in ('all', 'all' ))
>
> because there is no practical relevance for such a metapackage.
>
> For example these are the key sentences that explain the reason of the
change, thanks, I will try to use more proper wording(like you did here)
when I describe something because I may lead to misunderstandings and wrong
meanings.

Kind regards

Emmanouil

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