Bug#343473: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Please do not build package on hurd-i386, breaks debootstrap

[Michael Banck]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:47:03PM +0200, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:04:00AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:01:41AM +0200, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> > > WRT to the patch you sent -- alternative way to achieve
> > > the same effect would be to make "login" package
> > > non-required on The Hurd, wouldn't it?
> > Totally, but this is not technically possible right now in Debian
> > (there are no arch-specific overrides in place yet).
> 
> You mean "override" files, like e.g. dpkg-scanpackages
> uses? Sorry for my misunderstanding...

No, this is an archive-specific thing.  To better manage releases, the
release manager and ftp-master can override the priorities of packages,
like demoting something to 'optional' even though the maintainer thinks
it should really be 'standard' for some reason.  Such, every binary
package has a hard-defined priority assigned.

As those are the same for each architure due to current technical
limitations, login is considered priority 'required' on hurd-i386 as
well, and there is nothing we can do from the packaging side.


Michael

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