[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#587871: Bug#587871: ntp: Please remove type-handling dependency

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 23:18:18 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2010-07-02 at 09:58 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > Since Debian Policy 3.9.0.0 architecture wild cards are defined for
> > Build-Depends(?:-Indep): [0] and Architecture: [1]. You are encouraged
> > to start using them.
> > A quick cheat-sheet for the dependency would be:
> > "$DEPENDENCY | not+linux-gnu" => "$DEPENDENCY [linux-any]"
> > "$DEPENDENCY | linux-gnu"     => "$DEPENDENCY [!linux-any]"
> 
> pbuilder still doesn't support this (#363193), and we need this to build
> our packages.

pbuilder support should be fixed by now. Also we are planning on
removing type-handling in the near future.

thanks,
guillem