On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:56:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> writes:
> > both education-desktop-other and ltsp-client are metapackages, or nearly > > so, containing only standard /usr/share/doc files, lintian overrides ...snip... > > how does lintian determine if a package is a "true" metapackage? > > Lintian doesn't think that either are metapackages because they are both > arch-dependent and it usually doesn't make any sense for a metapackage to > be arch-dependent. Why *are* they arch-dependent? to have architecture-specific dependencies. is this unreasonable for a metapackage? live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
