On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:46:16AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> weasel noted that tor-dbg exists and depends on tor.  Since dpkg
> currently handles arch all packages as if they were native for
> dependency resolution [1], this leads to this situation:

Oh right. Thanks for looking into the details that I missed.

> In practice, I think delaying this for after Wheezy as you suggested is
> the way to go because:
...
>  * :any is currently neither used in Ubuntu nor in Debian.  Introducing
>    the first package with such a dependency a week before the freeze
>    even though it is known to break existing tools would hardly be sane.

Right. :any dependencies must not be introduced in wheezy, because the
squeeze apt does not know about them and would fail to upgrade. Please
delay working on this bug.

Helmut



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