Bug#837116: nvidia-kernel-source: cannot be installed from jessie-backports due to make:any dependency

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Thu Sep 8 22:27:22 UTC 2016


On 2016-09-09 00:14, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> dpkg on Jessie does not support :any or :native qualifiers in the
> dependencies, so the version in jessie-backports cannot be installed on
> jessie.

Hmm, why didn't I run into that problem in my piuparts tests (of non-free)?

Dropping the :any should be fine for jessie-backports, since there is no
need to install -source:amd64 on arch=i386 (because -source:i386
contains the amd64 blob, too, (in backports only)).


Andreas



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