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

Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org> writes:

> Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 18:10 +0100 schrieb =?UTF-8?Q?
> Mart=C3=ADn?= Ferrari:

>> On 8/8/07, Julian Andres Klode  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?
>> 

My understanding is if it has architecture specific recommends or dependencies, it's not really architecture independent. The code itself can be but the package is not and would be better to have it as any.

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