Bug#1110359: Bug#1110466: unblock: lapack/3.12.1-5

Helmut Grohne helmut at subdivi.de
Thu Aug 7 11:49:43 BST 2025


Hi Simon,

On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 10:52:12AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> So I think the best-practice for empty transitional packages is that they
> should retain their previous Architecture and Multi-Arch, and have:
> 
>     Depends: the-new-package (>= some suitable version)

Thank you. I concur. Is this something we might reasonable get into 
Debian policy or the developers reference? It's not the first time that 
someone (myself included) gets this wrong.

Helmut



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