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--- Begin Message ---Package: base-files Version: 7.10 Severity: wishlist Looking at the content of this package, all of the files seem to be arch-independent -- only text files or directories. According to the changelog, this package was "arch all" in the beginning, but it became "arch any" at some point, 15 years ago: ------------ base-files (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low * Made "Architecture: any" for /etc/motd to be os-dependant. [ A binary-all-<os> scheme would simplify this ]. [...] -- Santiago Vila <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:53:35 +0100 ------------ I do not understand what makes (or could have made in the past) /etc/motd to become arch-dependent, and there seem to be no other clues in the changelog or in the archived bug reports. I assume that there's probably a good reason for it that I cannot see, but dropping this question/suggestion just in case that it is now possible to make the package arch-all. -- Manuel
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--- Begin Message ---On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:54:00PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > I do not understand what makes (or could have made in the past) /etc/motd to > become arch-dependent, and there seem to be no other clues in the changelog or > in the archived bug reports. Use the source, Luk! This is easy to find by looking at debian/rules. But I will save you the work: Your /etc/motd probably says "Debian GNU/Linux" but we also have kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64 and hurd-i386, and then /etc/motd would not tell the truth (because none of those Debian architectures use Linux as the kernel). Since this package is really tiny, there is not a lot of wasted space in the mirrors by making it Arch: any. Also, hurd-i386 does not have /sys. Thanks.
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