On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 02:00:14PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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
> Pro
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> David Kalnischkies wrote:
>> in this example:
>> Package: foobar
>> Architecture: amd64
>> Depends: package-bar
>> that last line is in fact read as:
>> Depends: package-bar:amd64
>
> Why? I don't think that would help humans any more than rea
David Kalnischkies wrote:
> in this example:
> Package: foobar
> Architecture: amd64
> Depends: package-bar
> that last line is in fact read as:
> Depends: package-bar:amd64
Why? I don't think that would help humans any more than reading it as
Depends: package-b
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Let me try again. I believe that a dependency like this:
>
> Depends: package-foo:i386
>
> is referring to a specific, concrete, non-virtual package package-foo
> and it doesn't make sense to allow this to be satisfied by virtual
>
David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> I agree here. If I understand correctly, you are saying that it would
>> be best if a dependency
>>
>> Package: a
>> Depends: phonon-backend
>>
>> should only be satisfied by a package from an
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> David Kalnischkies wrote:
>> As an example:
>> I highly doubt "phonon:amd64" with a dependency on "phonon-backend" will
>> work with "phonon-backend-vlc:armel" which provides "phonon-backend".
>>
>> If phonon-backend would be a normal pack
Hi,
David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Probably hard to implemen
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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
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
>
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