On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:43:16PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: type-handling > Version: 0.2.23 > Severity: normal > > This issue has just become somewhat more commonplace: > gnome-desktop-environment now uses type-handling, depending on > "gnome-mount | linux-gnu", and on "policykit-1-gnome | not+linux-gnu". > Note that gnome-desktop-environment, as a metapackage, uses > "Architecture: all". This seems like a very useful application of > type-handling. > > Please, consider splitting the provides into a separate package which > does not depend on dpkg-dev. >
type-handling has always been a hack to workaround missing features of dpkg-dev, and it should disappear asap. dpkg has already support for architecture aliases for a few years, as far as I remember it can't be used due to missing support on the build daemons. Could the dpkg team (Cc:ed) can give us a more detailed status of this feature, so that we can push it for Squeeze? Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
