On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:12:12PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Again, the right solution is to fix this architecture mess once and > for all by not using a simple matched string for both the cpu and the > OS.
BTW, one of the last dpkg uploads included a new feature for architecture-dependent Depends:, not only Build-Depends. Furthermore, doogie seems to be rewriting dpkg as dpkg2 (don't know whether he still does after he was told that it would not get into sarge). Perhaps now is the right time to try again settling on an arch-handling to rule them all? Dpkg needs to be changed to cope with mixed 32/64 bit userspace for PPC64, AMD64 and S/390x anyway. To me it seems like that might be tightly bound to our problem. Marcus, are you still interested in that? I can understand if your enthusiasm died away some time in the last 4 years... Michael
