* Matthias Klose [Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:35:52 +0200]:
> Andreas Barth writes:
> > + the already discussed topic of recommends (IMHO yes, as main should be
> > a closure, and broken recommends break that; although I tend to
> > sarge-ignore if there is no other clean solution, as all-packages
> > don't support something like foo[i386] in their recommends line);
> you can do this, but it's more pain in every package than a change in
> dpkg:
> Recommends: ${arch-recommends}
> and in debian/rules:
> ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE),i386-linux)
> dh_gencontrol -- -Varch-recommends=foo
> else
> dh_gencontrol
> fi
if I understood it correctly, the issue was with Architecture: all
packages whose recommends are only available on some architectures
(e.g., education-common recommending grub).
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