On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:25 -0500, Adam Heath wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 20:21 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> >
> > > #170575 was marked fixed some time ago, but the version in sid does not
> > > accept such dependency lines.
> > >
> > dpkg has _never_ had support for arch-specific Depend lines, just
> > Build-Depend.  That bug should not have been closed.
> 
> This is correct, _dpkg_ has never had support.
> 
> However, dpkg-dev/dpkg-gencontrol did have support at one time(or the support
> is there but broken), and the arch-specific depends lines are fixed up when
> generating debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control.
> 
Then it was broken from release; I went back and checked the release
that was in and it doesn't work -- because although the support is in
the code, the crucial ", 1)" is missing from the call to the function
that does it.

Scott
-- 
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen?  Are you going round the twist?

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Reply via email to