Bug#661645: linphone: [linux-any !sparc] is not a valid way of	specifying a dependency
    peter green 
    plugwash at p10link.net
       
    Tue Feb 28 20:55:07 UTC 2012
    
    
  
Package: linphone
Version: 3.5.2-6
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
The latest version of linphone build-depends on
libsrtp-dev [linux-any !sparc]
The intent of this was clearly "all linux architectures except sparc". 
Unfortunately however this is not a valid architecture specifier for a 
dependency. Policy 7.1 clearly states "It is not permitted for some 
names to be prepended with exclamation marks while others aren't.". The 
result of this is that linphone is currently sitting in state 
"bd-uninstallable" on sparc.
Unfortunately I don't think there is any clean way to express the intent 
of the original build-dependency. The best replacement I can think of is 
[!hurd-any !kfreebsd-any !sparc] which should work fine unless we get a 
new OS in debian (which seems unlikely in the forseeable future).
    
    
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