Debians commandline package manager https://git.kalnischkies.de/apt/atom?h=2.7.11 2021-09-04T13:35:15Z 2021-09-04T13:35:15Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2021-09-04T00:22:24Z urn:sha1:79a675ddf3320bf640d130e592c86fefd1a460e1 What does a M-A:allowed package from non-native/non-foreign architecture provide? If we look at M-A:foreign, such a package satisfies dependencies within its own architecture, but not in other architectures, so the same should apply to :any dependencies on M-A:allowed packages, but we have a problem: While unqualified package names are architecture-specific, the virtual package name qualified with :any is not (see 3addaba1ff). We could of course make it architecture-specific now, but that would introduce many virtual packages for this relatively minor usecase and would reintroduce a need for special display handling. So, we pull a trick here: Barbarian M-A:allowed packages do not provide the architecture-independent :any package anymore, but only a specific one and every :any dependency from a barbarian package is rewritten to an or-group of the specific and the independent :any package. References: 3addaba1ff