Bug#619449: Add architecture qualifier parsing to libdpkg-perl

2011-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Wookey wrote: > OK. I realised after posting this that there was already some very > similar code in dpkg 1.16.0 in natty. So I did a patch against that > here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/741433 > which is probably very close to what you are asking for.

Bug#619449: Add architecture qualifier parsing to libdpkg-perl

2011-03-24 Thread Wookey
+++ Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-24 14:31 +0100]: > Hi, > > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Wookey wrote: > > It is probably not hard to enforce this at a slightly higher level. > > Indeed, it may make sense to just parse any string after the :, then > > have higher-level checks for valid values. The multiarch s

Bug#619449: Add architecture qualifier parsing to libdpkg-perl

2011-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Wookey wrote: > It is probably not hard to enforce this at a slightly higher level. > Indeed, it may make sense to just parse any string after the :, then > have higher-level checks for valid values. The multiarch spec > explicitly says to reject anything other than :any (

Bug#619449: Add architecture qualifier parsing to libdpkg-perl

2011-03-23 Thread Wookey
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.10 Severity: wishlist The multiarch spec (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec) allows for dependencies to be marked with :any architecture qualifiers to indicate when a dependency on a Multi-arch: allowed package if for the host arch, not the build arch. The multiarc