On 03/29/2018 10:19 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > its not the first time that I'm running into that problem: A package > that is Architecture: all depends from packages Architecture: any. > These dependencies are not available on all architectures and thus the > package does not migrate to testing. The package paleomix is an example > for this[1]. I had a similar situation with metaphlan2 which was solved > by manual intervention of ftpmaster. I'm just wondering whether we > could find a better clue than forcing people to do manual intervention. > > While simply setting the Architecture: all package to any that > intervention would not be necessary but that's simply wrong. > Unfortunately I currently see no better solution and wanted to bring > this topic up here. > Make sure your arch:any package builds on at least amd64 and i386, which is where we check for arch:all packages installability. That should be pretty easy in all but the most exceptional cases.
Cheers, Julien