Bug#273847: acknowledged by developer (Re: grub-splashimages is not installable on !i386)

[Adrian Bunk]

reopen 273847
thanks

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:48:02PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #273847: grub-splashimages is not installable on !i386,
> which was filed against the grub-splashimages package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>.
>...
> The package contains architecture-independent data which is only useful
> when coupled with an arch: any package that only builds on certain
> architectures.  Building the package as arch: all with a dependency on
> the arch: any grub is perfectly reasonable in the interest of saving
> archive space, and does not carry with it any obligation to be
> installable on architectures where it is not useful.
> 
> Therefore I am closing this report, as this is not a bug.

I'm diagreeing for three reasons:
- it's a RC violation of section 2.2.1. of your policy
- saving archive space might be a point if it would be done
  consistently - but as long as a package like emacs21-nox uses over
  20 MB of your archive space I can't take the archive space argument
  seriously
- what's wrong with the trivial solution "Depends: grub | not+i386" -
  not even your archive space argument is against it

> Steve Langasek

cu
Adrian

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