Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:04:05PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Adrian, > if 'boot-loader' was not a real package (not sure if it requires a new > catagory or if it fits under meta or virtual) and then when you did: > apt-get install boot-loader > it (dpkg or apt -- not sure) checked your ARCH and

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > > - Getting the packages into testing, which was previously apparently > > impossible. > > - Avoiding the common problem with task packages that if you remove > > one package in the task, you have to remove the task package as > > well, since its dependecies

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:17:50PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:16:56PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:03:48AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > Assume a package would recommend grub which is only available on i386. > > > There are two cases:

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:56:06AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041004 00:40]: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:53:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > We would still list everything in recommends. There were many reasons why > > > I > > > moved all contents of t