Bug#273847: grub-splashimages is not installable on !i386

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:42:30PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:28:37AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:05:32PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > grub-splashimages depends on grub which is only available
> > > on i386 and hurd-i386.
> > > 
> > > I don't see any reason why it's binary-all instead of
> > > i386-only given that it's uninstallable on all other
> > > architectures (and this isn't likely to change).
> > 
> > Hmm, another question is if this package actually should _depend_
> > on grub. After all, it's just a collection of xpm images. Of
> > course they live in a location useful for the use with grub
> > and they have the right size for use with grub, but they could
> > easily used for other purposes ...
> > 
> > So I think the package should either be Arch: i386 hurd-i386
> > or drop its dependency on grub (I think the correct relation
> > would be Enhances, btw).
> 
> I think dropping grub dependency might be best, and to suggest grub.

Seems fine but please keep it binary-all.  There's no sane way to be binary-all
for systems but only for i386, and GRUB2 will be multi-cpu anyway.

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