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

reassign 436650 syslinux
retitle 436650 Please build (at least a subset of) syslinux for all arches thanks

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:58:52PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>Severity: important
>Version: 3.0.2
>User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
>Usertags: goal-recommends
>
>hi,
>
>debian-cd has a recommends on syslinux, which is not available on all
>plattforms. since we want to install recommends by default in lenny,
>this needs to be addressed. the easiest way would be to change the
>recommends into a Recommends: hfsutils, netpbm, syslinux [amd64 i386].

No, not at all. Debian-cd is explicitly designed to run on all architectures. The Recommends: packages are used when building CDs for specific architectures, but should be available on all. In the case of syslinux, the boot-{i386,amd64} scripts don't need anything specific for those architectures, they just call ppmtolss16 to convert some graphics. The best way to fix this bug would be to build syslinux on other arches too, or alternatively to split ppmtolss16 et al. into another binary-any package. Hence I'm reassigning appropriately.

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