Package: wnpp Severity: normal Control: affects -1 src:isa-support I'm giving up the isa-support package. It was an attempt to handle packages that can't be reasonably ported to an arch's baseline, and to let them gracefully refuse to install rather than crash at runtime. Alas, it failed.
While it works ok for the initial install when using command-line tools, a failed _upgrade_ (ie, when an existing package gains an ISA requirement) leaves the system in a state that's not trivial to recover from by a newbie user or a simplicistic clicky-clicky interface. I assumed that "apt -f install" translates to a similarly simply operation in a GUI, but this doesn't seem to be the case. On the other hand, there's no straightforward alternate solution. Maintainers of packages that depend on isa-support don't seem to be thrilled to migrate away from it, thus I can't remove the package immediately. Perhaps someone has a better idea...?
