David Kalnischkies wrote: > while playing around with the APT code regarding architecture-specific > dependencies I stumbled over the handling of Provides in that context: > > Package: pkga > Status: install ok installed > Architecture: i386 > Provides: foo > > Package pkgb > Architecture: amd64 > Conflicts: foo:amd64
Conflicts with an architecture seem kind of like conflicts with a version. That would mean that that virtual packages wouldn't qualify. Could that work well in practice? [...] > Even more interesting, if I change this conflict to a depends dpkg happily > installs the package and dpkg --audit gives no indication that a dependency > is unsatisfied Likewise. Thanks for bringing it up, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120709123417.GA16950@burratino
