* Julien Valroff [Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:53:43 +0100]: > Hi,
> I am the maintainer of the ajaxterm package. > I have been provided a patch to allow use of psyco in ajaxterm only if > available. > I would like to ajaxterm to recommend or suggest this package, which is > only available for i386, whereas ajaxterm is an arch:all package. > Is there any way to specify this? > Should I leave psyco anyway, and rely on apt to not try and install it > on architectures where it is not available? > Should I change my package to be arch:any (I guess no, just asking)? I think Recommending or, particularly, Suggesting packages that don't exist in certain arches is ok for arch:all packages, the story being that nobody notices that it doesn't get installed. If it was a Depends, and arch:all package would depend on "psyco | not+i386", which would pull in type-handling on all !i386 arches. There is no point at all in doing that for Recommends, though: you want psyco just not installed, not random crap pulled in. :-) HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. -- Michel de Montaigne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]