#436733 dpkg: Improve handling of dependencies on arch: all packages

Package:
dpkg
Source:
dpkg
Description:
Debian package management system
Submitter:
Julian Andres Klode
Date:
2010-02-07 16:18:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#436733#5
Date:
2007-08-08 18:34:26 UTC
From:
To:
dpkg should export dependencies like "pkg [amd64 i386]" to
the binary package and ignore dependencies for non-matching
architectures at runtime.
Also, I propose to add a field "Install-to:" for arch-indep packages,
which defines to which Packages file it will be installed.
This would allow packages like ndisgtk to be arch-indep, but installed
only into the i386 and amd64 Packages files.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.97-5.3   The GNU core utilities
ii  libc6                         2.6-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

dpkg recommends no packages.

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