On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 09:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:03:59PM +0000, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 13:51 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > > > > > > > unfortunately it makes the package fail to build. > > > > > > > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: the Recommends field contains an arch-specific > > > > dependency but the package is architecture all > > > > dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol -ptask-desktop -ldebian/changelog > > > > -Tdebian/task-desktop.substvars -Pdebian/task-desktop returned exit > > > > code 255 > > > > > > > > Currently all tasks are architecture-independent, so I guess that making > > > > task-desktop architecture-dependent would not be a good solution ? > > > > > > hmmm, and we have the same problem with the recent change to add > > > network-manager-gnome to task-gnome-desktop. > > > > > > ANyone with a good suggestion, here? > > > > Hide the desktop and laptop tasks on kfreebsd-*. > > Hi Ben and everybody, > > That proposition does not remove the need to make task-desktop > architecture-dependent.
Just because a package is architecture: all, does not mean it has to be installable on all architectures. > Would that break something ? Otherwise, despite it looks unusual, I would > suggest to go ahead with architecture-dependant tasks if needed. Yes, that's actually probably very simple... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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