Universe Clarification Please

Dave Miller justdave at canonical.com
Wed Oct 6 00:13:23 UTC 2004


Brett Kirksey wrote:

> Is it normal for universe to contain packages that will only
> work on certain platforms? If so, is their anyway to identify
> these since they are showing up in Synaptic?

My understanding of it is "if it was in Debian unstable when we 
snapshotted, it'll be in universe, unless it won't build."

My guess is something caused the build of the ppc version to fail on the 
build machines, but it worked for the x86 architecture.

-- 
  - justdave




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