Hi! On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 20:35:14 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno | 2010-06-14 12:00:14 [+0200]: > > > libudev-dev (>= 0.139) | not+linux-gnu, > > > libhal-dev (>= 0.5.10) | linux-gnu, > > > I don't think it's a bug. The system type on those architectures is > > "linux-gnuspe" or "linux-gnueabi", not "linux-gnu". If you only want to > > match on the OS, you should use the "linux" and "not+linux" instead.
> So I'm going to mass open bugs against every package which uses > linux-gnu and tell them to use linux-any which becomes policy once > #530687. Is this intended? There is actually no reason to use linux-gnu > instead of linux-any, is there[0]? Nope, arch wildcards are just superior. > Does the new policy make type-handling obselete since dpkg provides it? Mostly, type-handling should eventually disappear, as Aurelien has said it's just a hack. But, there's one case where it might unfortunately still be needed, which is an arch:all package conditionally depending on arch:foo packages only on the foo architecture. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org