Package: debian-policy Version: N/A Severity: normal In section 7.1 the Debain Policy manual says that 'pkg (version) [arch]' is ignored for calculating dependencies. This is not really clear as discussed in bug 160129.
One could think that 'pkg [arch] | otherpkg' is interpreted as 'otherpkg' in !arch case because 'pkg [arch]' is ignored. On the other hand, 'pkg [arch]' can be easily implemented in logic as 'arch IMPLIES pkg', which is true for !arch and makes the dependency appear 'ignored' in the simple case w/o |. But 'pkg [arch] | otherpkg' would be always true for !arch this way and no dependency on otherpkg ever required. I'd appreciate if the documentation described implemented behavior clearly.
