On 15/04/25 at 11:47 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 4/14/25 17:33, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > My logic here is: arch:all can be used on all architectures. It's not
> > always easy, from a build failure, to understand if failing to build
> > translates to failing to work.
> > 
> > So when it was clear that the package is not expected to work on i386,
> > I did not file bugs. When it was not so clear, and possibly a bug in the
> > package, I filed the bugs as severity serious.
> > 
> > I'm totally fine if the bugs are turned into "severity=wishlist,
> > tag=wontfix, title=i386 is unsupported and will never be". (at least it
> > will be documented)
> 
> I've lowered the severity to important.
> 
> > > Whats your take?
> > 
> > I don't know. Maybe we need something like
> > "architecture-has-64-bit-time_t"?
> > 
> > Lucas
> 
> What's the effect of this, and how to use it?

None, because it doesn't exist.

But actually
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#being-kind-to-porters
says that you could:
Build-Depends: unsupported-architecture [!i386]

Lucas

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