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

