❦ 31 juillet 2015 19:55 +0200, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> :

>> Then it looks like you may need to provide the information which 
>> architectures
>> have systemtap support.  Doing that not in a central place will package
>> maintainers force to hard code this list of architectures.  Please provide 
>> such
>> a list of architectures.  An example for this might be from the java-common
>> package /usr/share/java/java_defaults.mk
>
> As for support, we could provide an arch all package depending on
> systemtap-sdt-dev only on architectures where systemtap works (is that
> authorized?).

Currently, systemtap-sdt-dev is arch any, so we could just add some
appropriate .mk to it. However, some packages specifically uses
arch-specific depends, so I suppose there is some reason for that. For
example, libvirt and php5.
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