[Aptitude-devel] Bug#843789: aptitude: please support Build-Depends/Conflicts-Arch

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


2016-11-09 17:17 David Kalnischkies:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.8.3-1
>Severity: wishlist
>Control: block -1 by #837395
>Tags: patch
>
>Hi,
>
>Bug #837395 requests support for these fields in apt which dpkg has for a while
>now – see there for details on why. It would be nice if we could get support
>for this into stretch so that packages can eventually use it.
>[...]
>btw: If this patch isn't applied aptitude treats Build-Conflicts-Arch packages as
>Build-Depends which means it is going to install those packages… not really
>what we want it to do (apt unpatched + libapt support would do the same btw).
>
>Thanks for consideration & Best regards

I am not taking this patch from an adversary (enemy?) of the Apt Inner
Circle lightly, but well, given the dates, let's consider it a
Christmas/Winter-Holidays present (or punishment)...  ;)


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>