Bug#909677: aisleriot: Consider temporarily removing aisleriot/armel to deal with testing migration blocking

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 15:24:39 -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> 在 2018年9月26日星期三 EDT 下午12:20:01，Jeremy Bicha 写道：
> > What should we do with the arch:all
> > gnome-games metapackage that depends on aisleriot? Do we need to make
> > that dependency [!armel] ?
> 
> In fact, there should be no magic; the only possible solution that I could 
> come up with is moving that package to Recommends: aisleriot [armel] and make 
> the hard dependency to aisleriot [!armel]. I don't know if that will work as 
> expected.

AIUI, it won't, unless you make the metapackage Architecture:
any. Architecture specifiers are parsed by dpkg-dev while building the
package and converted into unconditional dependencies in the generated
binary package.

(But metapackages are empty, so making it Architecture: any is not a
significant waste of space.)

    smcv