On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:22:37PM -0500, Moffett, Kyle D wrote: > retitle 585767 Meta Bug: Convert all deps on type-handling to arch-wildcards > and remove type-handling > severity 585767 wishlist > thanks > > On Jun 21, 2010, at 15:56, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:35:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > >> * Aurelien Jarno | 2010-06-14 12:00:14 [+0200]: > >>>> libudev-dev (>= 0.139) | not+linux-gnu, > >>>> libhal-dev (>= 0.5.10) | linux-gnu, > >>> > >>> I don't think it's a bug. The system type on those architectures is > >>> "linux-gnuspe" or "linux-gnueabi", not "linux-gnu". If you only want to > >>> match on the OS, you should use the "linux" and "not+linux" instead. > >> > >> This make sense. > >> > >> So I'm going to mass open bugs against every package which uses > >> linux-gnu and tell them to use linux-any which becomes policy once > >> #530687. Is this intended? There is actually no reason to use linux-gnu > >> instead of linux-any, is there[0]? > >> Does the new policy make type-handling obselete since dpkg provides it? > > > > type-handling has always been a bit hack, with the (long term) goal to > > remove it. It had no replacement until not so long ago, as the build > > daemons software was not able to handle it. Now that it has been fixed, > > we should certainly get rid of it. > > Ok, just to confirm, dependencies should be rewritten along these lines: > > "$DEPENDENCY | not+linux-gnu" => "$DEPENDENCY [linux-any]" > "$DEPENDENCY | not+linux" => "$DEPENDENCY [linux-any]" > "$DEPENDENCY | linux-gnu" => "$DEPENDENCY [!linux-any]" > "$DEPENDENCY | linux" => "$DEPENDENCY [!linux-any]"
It might be sometimes better to use [kfreebsd-any] or [hurd-any] or a combination of both. > "$DEPENDENCY | not+hurd" => "$DEPENDENCY [hurd-any]" > "$DEPENDENCY | hurd" => "$DEPENDENCY [!hurd-any]" Same here. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100621212501.gd16...@hall.aurel32.net
