Bug#761003: autopkgtest: @ shouldn't be satisfied by a virtual package

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Thu Sep 11 20:00:36 UTC 2014


Hey Niko,

Niko Tyni [2014-09-11 22:18 +0300]:
> It certainly does ignore provides. I don't quite understand what
> you mean about resolving architectures. Are there situations where
> installing the "native" architecture version of the package wouldn't
> be the right thing to do?

No, I mean that binaries of a source can say "Architecture: [a b c]"
or "linux-any", or other funny things. These are relatively simple to
resolve using libdpkg-perl. I hope we don't need to go start resolving
multi-arch dependencies. :-)

Thanks,

Martin
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