Control: retitle -1 rclone-browser should depend on rclone also on mipsel

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 02:14:39PM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Package: rclone-browser
> Version: 1.8.0-1
> Severity: important
> Control: affects -1 rclone
> 
> rclone has never built reliably on mipsel, and has now been removed
> for mipsel.
> 
> This means rclone-browser is not installable on mipsel since it has
>   Depends: rclone.
> 
> Since rclone is not required to *build* rclone-browser, probably the
> simplest fix is to replace the Depends with
>  Depends: rclone [!mipsel]
> 
> There are two other options:
> - change the Depends to Recommends: rclone

This had been done in an NMU, and should be reverted now that rclone
is available again on mipsel.

> - request that rclone-browser be removed from unstable for mipsel and add
>   Build-Depends: rclone.
>   (this option would track rclone, making rclone-browser work again on
>    mipsel if rclone ever builds in the future).
>...

"Build-Depends: rclone" is a good idea in any case, to prevent building 
on architectures where the package is not installable.

cu
Adrian

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