Bug#551703: type-handling should be a b-dep, not a dep of gnome-desktop-environment

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Tue Oct 20 08:49:33 UTC 2009


Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 02:21 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : 
> I can only assume this to be a typo, but type-handling being a
> dependency of gnome-desktop-environment certainly doesn't look right and
> it should rather be a b-dep.
> Atm it pulls in a lot of devel packages (via dpkg-dev).

Argh, WTF is that dpkg-dev dependency? It is completely useless.

The other solution is to make g-d-e architecture dependent, which in
turns means making all metapackages architecture dependent to avoid
breaking the dependencies. Great.

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