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.

Along the lines,
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/console-setup-freebsd site should
probably check on the unreleased suite.

Best regards
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