Package: atlas3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
Your package is one of the two only packages that fail to abide by the wish
of Debian policy 5.6.19:
| 5.6.19 Binary
|
| This field is a list of binary packages.
|
| When it appears in the .dsc file it is the list of binary packages which a
| source package can produce. It does not necessarily produce all of these
| binary packages for every architecture. The source control file doesn't
| contain details of which architectures are appropriate for which of the
| binary packages.
Your package doesn't list all binary packages that it can build in the
Binary: header, rather, only those that are built for i386. And in case the
person building the source package happens to have powerpc, that'd be
*that* set of packages. I assume the reason for doing so is because of
dh_* -a's behaviour of building all arch dependent packages doesn't pay
attention to the explicit architecture.
However, as you can see in debhelper(7), you can also use -s instead of -a,
and then debhelper will only consider packages of matching architecture.
>From debhelper(7):
-s, --same-arch
This is a smarter version of the -a flag, that is used in some rare
circumstances. It understands that if the control file lists
"Architecture: i386" for the package, the package should not be acted
on on other architec‐ tures. So this flag makes the command act on all
"Architecture: any" packages, as well as on any packages that have the
current architecture explicitly specified. Contrast to the -a flag,
which makes the command work on all packages that are not architecture
independent.
This is a much cleaner solution IMHO, and also will prevent an ftp-master
archive integrity script from trip over on your package. Hence, I'd like to
request you to apply the attached patch.
Thank you very much for considering,
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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