Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.13.11
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi,
dpkg-gencontrol doesn't permit dependency headers (@pkg_dep_fields) to
carry arches information.
I've searched for the reason this is currently not done, and the most
relevant I found dates of the rewrite of parsedep():
Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:16:18 -0500 Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* scripts/controllib.pl:
* Dependency fields are now parsed into a nested list structure.
* All dependency fields now support [arch] constructs. Those that
don't apply for the current host_arch are removed during parsing.
This seems to suggest that it should work.
I think the reason is missing parameters to parsedep() in
dpkg-gencontrol and I confirmed this by changing:
parsedep(substvars($v))
in:
parsedep(substvars($v),1,1)
on line 185 of dpkg-gencontrol.
Cheers,
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