Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2016-01-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:39:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: > > On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for > > >identity or a match. (This poses problem

Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2016-01-20 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2016-01-20 14:39 GMT+01:00 Colin Watson : > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: >> On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: >> > * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for >> >identity or a match. (This poses problems for programs tha

Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2016-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: > On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for > >identity or a match. (This poses problems for programs that do not > > I think making apt call dpkg-architect

Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2016-01-20 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi, On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 22:04:48 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> * Johannes Schauer [140522 13:30]: >>> Debian policy 11.1.1 [1] and the associated footnote [2] allow >>> architecture wildcards of the form os-any and any-cpu. Apt seems t