[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#292917: needs to depend on f2c on m68k?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 1 February 2005 at 14:38, Adam Conrad wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel said:
| >
| > Good point, and r-base-dev uses
| >
| > Depends: [...]  g77 | m68k, f2c | not+m68k, type-handling, [...]
| >
| > I can't remember why I never added that to octave2.1-headers. It is worth
| > a try.
| 
| I don't see why octave2.1-headers would need type-handling, since, unlike
| r-base-dev, it's an arch:any package.  

That may have been the reason then.

| You should be able to have a
| ${m68k:Depends} or something in your debian/control that only gets
| populated with f2c on m68k builds and no other.

I am not aware of packages modifying debian/control on the fly. That sounds a
little fishy to me.

And all that mess for m68k which nobody uses. Sigh.

Dirk

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