On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:50:36PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:38:27PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Actually, because of the e2fsck-static package, e2fsprogs has to have > > > a build-depends on libselinux. There doesn't seem to be a way to say, > > > "except on non-Linux platforms" for a build-depends as far as I know, > > > unfortunately. Any suggested solutions?
> > List the linux platforms. It is more likely some new non-linux > > platform shows up (like armeb, kfreebsd-amd64, ...) than a new linux > > one. > That's..... unspeakably horrible. > What we really need is a separation between "OS" and "Architecture" as > far as dpkg is concerned. Yes, the dpkg maintainers have a patch to do that by extending the semantics of the Architecture: field. Other tools need to support the same extensions before it can really be used, though. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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