Bug#436650: debian-cd has unmet recommends on some archs

Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 18:10 +0100 schrieb =?UTF-8?Q? Mart=C3=ADn?= Ferrari:
> On 8/8/07, Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org> wrote:
>
> > The package is "Architecture: All" and this does not work with
> > arch-indep packages, because these expressions are used at build-time.
> > If the package is built on powerpc, it won't contain the syslinux
> > recommends.
> > If the package is built on i386, it will contain the syslinux
> > recommends.
> > I tried this with one of my packages.
>
> Isn't that what was intended in the first place?
>

Because the package is arch-indep, one package is for all architectures.
If you build the package on i386, you will have a package recommending syslinux, but this will also be installed to all other architectures (Architecture: all)

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