Re: Bug#163666: debian-policy: Unclear result with [arch] and |

2009-01-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 15:20:02 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I finally found some time to write new proposed wording for the section in Policy on handling architecture-restricted dependencies. Could you review this change and be sure that I'm correctly describing the situation? I added a

Re: Bug#163666: debian-policy: Unclear result with [arch] and |

2009-01-26 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Greetings from this new -policy subscriber! Russ Allbery wrote: @@ -4188,6 +4188,22 @@ Build-Depends-Indep: texinfo Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.2.10 [!hurd-i386], hurd-dev [hurd-i386], gnumach-dev [hurd-i386] /example + requires ttkernel-headers-2.2.0/tt on all

Re: Bug#163666: debian-policy: Unclear result with [arch] and |

2009-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
I finally found some time to write new proposed wording for the section in Policy on handling architecture-restricted dependencies. Could you review this change and be sure that I'm correctly describing the situation? I added a new, fairly complicated example based on one of the ones that

Re: Bug#163666: debian-policy: Unclear result with [arch] and |

2008-07-05 Thread Russ Allbery
dpkg folks, Bug#163666 against debian-policy points out that arch-specific build dependencies are unclearly specified in Policy currently in the presence of alternatives. The current wording says: All fields that specify build-time relationships (`Build-Depends',

Re: Bug#163666: debian-policy: Unclear result with [arch] and |

2008-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:09:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Bug#163666 against debian-policy points out that arch-specific build dependencies are unclearly specified in Policy currently in the presence of alternatives. The current wording says: All fields that specify build-time