Th: dropping athlon and maybe deprecating ppc?

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Tuesday 10 of March 2009, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:32:24 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > How is that possible? There are dependencies that won't allow random
> > upgrading of architecture dependant parts.
>
> These dependencies either don't allow upgrading at all (are not met and
> one has to use --nodeps), or simply doesn't work. I've had such problems
> many times, ending up with clean (as for deps) but not working system.
> Don't forget that i686 is a subset of athlon.

That's because i686 and athlon had the same version-revisions. Upgrade should 
work fine if i686 will have bigger revisions than athlon AFAIK (untested of 
course).

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