Re: Bug#932258: console-setup-freebsd: missing dependency

Hello,

Missatge de James Clarke <[email protected]> del dia dc., 17 de jul.
2019 a les 8:25:

> vidcontrol, and the rest of src:freebsd-utils, is available in unreleased,
> since the source package only builds for kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386.
> Avoiding this would require either getting the source package to build on Linux
> architectures, or building at least one arch:all package, neither of which seem
> to have much point to them. As an architecture on Debian Ports, it is expected
> that you also have the "unreleased" suite enabled, as is clearly documented on
> the main site[1]. This is especially important on kFreeBSD, since
> bin:freebsd-utils is Essential, containing many of the core utilities required
> for a functioning system. All ports buildds should have unreleased available,
> and debian-installer learnt over 2 years ago to include unreleased when
> downloading udebs. Thus, I consider this not a bug; as much as we would like it
> to not be, as far as Debian Ports goes, unreleased is a necessary addition to
> unstable, with cases like these stemming from the fact that ftp-master does not
> allow sources to exist that don't build packages for any of its architectures.

Oh! I did not check unreleased, only `amd64` architecture and I saw
that dependency loop was not closed. Thanks very much for the nice
explanation and background.

Regards
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