[Pkg-kde-extras] qtemu can't migrate to testing, plus it's not useful on arches without qemu

Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Mon Jul 16 22:38:07 UTC 2007


Hello guys. (Please CC me on replies.)

At the moment qtemu cannot migrate to testing because it is built on
architectures where qemu is not available, and qtemu Depends: qemu.
Besides that, and probably more importantly, it is not useful at all on
those architectures.

May I suggest that you only provide packages for architectures where
qemu is available. To do this, you can either (that I can think of):

  * restrict the Architecture field on debian/control to those
    architectures where qemu is built (currently, amd64, i386 and ppc)

  * do not restrict the Architecture field, but Build-Depend on qemu
    instead; this ensures that the package will not be built (or even
    attempted to) where qemu is not available, plus you don't need a new
    upload when a new architecture builds qemu

In any case, after you implement one of the above (I'd suggest the
second), you should file a bug against ftp.debian.org requesting for the
removal of all !i386 !amd64 !powerpc qtemu binaries. Otherwise, the
package will not be elegible for migration to testing.

HTH,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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