Universe Clarification Please

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:42:24AM -0400, 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?

Yes, it is normal.  The reason is that many packages don't build correctly
on all Ubuntu platforms without fixes.  We devote our efforts to making
these fixes for supported packages, as we have limited resources.

We welcome analysis and fixes from the community for universe packages,
however.  In this case, the problem is a build failure due to an unsatisfied
dependency:

http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~lamont/buildLogs/libo/libopenhbci-plugin-ddvcard/0.4.2-4/libopenhbci-plugin-ddvcard_0.4.2-4_20040922-2315-powerpc-failed

which should be straightforward for someone with a powerpc system to track
down (I'm away from home and don't have access to one at the moment).  It
might only need a retry.

-- 
 - mdz