On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 3. makedev MUST be something else than binary-all. It should be > binary-all-linux, but that is not implemented in our packaging system. It > should be. This requires some global effort and some lobbying for this > feature. It could list all linu arches and become binary-any, which is lame. > Then hurd doesn't need to conflict with makedev and a dummy package would > work even when dpkg isn't fixed.
3.5. Make makedev Arch: any, and modify it so that under hurd-i386 the package does nothing (i.e. it is really a dummy package). It has an Installed-Size: of 72Kb. Even if we multiply this by the number of architectures, I think we can live with that (we already live with an "Arch: any" base-files, which is not a large package either).
