Hi! I've been filing bug reports on packages Build-Depending on type-handling to switch to native arch wildcards, the bugs still open are:
#639117 [w|+| ] e2tools: Remove unused type-handling from Build-Depends #639332 [w|+| ] buildcross: Remove deprecated Depends on type-handling #639164 [w|+P| ] gdb: Stop using deprecated type-handling Build-Depends The remaining issue is the virtual architectures Provided by type-handling itself used in dependency fields, which are known to cause problems on buildds. Before even considering its removal I think we should know how many packages make use of those virtual architecture dependencies, and file bugs accordingly (maybe after a mass-bug discussion on devian-devel). Those would need to be checked against every architecture Packages file for anything matching «dpkg-architecture -L» output, and the split cpu/system variants. Thorsten Glaser proposed to try to make this a release goal, but even if we've had in mind getting rid of type-handling for a long time, I don't think I could take active responsibility of such release goal at the moment. Anyone volunteers? thanks, guillem -- 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/20111016102805.ga25...@gaara.hadrons.org
