Re: Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:07:01AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:07:00AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> Only the "dpkg:arch" is required and that can be done

Re: Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:07:01AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:07:00AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Only the "dpkg:arch" is required and that can be done with "Provides: > >> dpkg-arch" again. > > Right.

Re: Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:07:00AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Only the "dpkg:arch" is required and that can be done with "Provides: >> dpkg-arch" again. > > Right. I wonder if even this should strictly be necessary, though, or if > dpkg shou

Re: Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:07:00AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Say you have a binary package (Multi-Arch: no) firfox and a > > library/plugin package firefox-mplayer-plugin. > > This could be handled by firefox having a "Provides: > >

Re: Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> - Allow arch specific depends >>> I propose to use "Depends: : (>= 1.2-3)" as syntax for >>> thses. While for etch no pac

Re: Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> - Allow arch specific depends >> I propose to use "Depends: : (>= 1.2-3)" as syntax for >> thses. While for etch no package should use them dpkg should accept >> them so inst

Re: Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Matt Taggart and others <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Several people have been working on a project we've been calling > > "multiarch", > > to seamlessly support running applications for multiple different binary > > tar

Multiarch preparations needed for etch dpkg

2006-05-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matt Taggart and others <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi debian-dpkg, > > Several people have been working on a project we've been calling "multiarch", > to seamlessly support running applications for multiple different binary > targets on the same system. The main example being running i386-lin