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Author Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390 ... [or have strict arch: control? ]
Goswin von Brederlow

2005-02-28, 8:50 pm

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:18:56PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
> Well, somewhat :-)
>
> they /attempt/ the build. sbuild will detect that it is not actually a
> package for this architecture, and will break it off right when the
> source package is extracted.


It does? How does that work for packages with only a minimal control
file that generate a full contol file during build? I see the Arch
check of the dsc file in line 742-484 but that is very unreliable.
Anything I missed?

I believe the dpkg behaviour to set "Architecture: any" for sources
that build arch dependent and independent packages (as opposed to
e.g. Architecture: all i386 powerpc) makes it impossible to reliably
decide if a package should be build for an arch.

>
> No, sbuild does check more things.


Ok, slightly exagerated, but a lot of packages would get build by sbuild
wrongfully if it weren't for packages-arch-specific in wanna-build.

MfG
Goswin


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