On Fri, 2019-11-22 at 09:09:20 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > > Visiting https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/glibc > > i noticed many dead links in the binaries section > > of the page. > > Those are binary packages that the glibc source package can build but that > it only builds on non-release architectures... so indeed the binary > packages are unknown by packages.debian.org which only knows about > packages available on official mirrors. > > And the list of binary packages is currently taken from the "Binary" field > in the .dsc and there we don't have any detail about architecture support, > etc. > > The tracker also doesn't scan all architectures currently (for performance > reasons) so it doesn't know which binary packages do really exist across > all architectures.
These could be switched to use the Package-List field instead, which contains this information. Thanks, Guillem