2006/10/27, Martin Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am building for the forthcoming armel architecture, and I too needed
to add an arch to the control file. Is there any reason not to simply
make this "any" rather than have to change it every time a new arch is
made? None of the mainline arches are missing, and a huge selection of
unofficial ones is present.

I presume the reason is that there is (or was) one architecture for
which nbd-client failed to build, and control file syntax does not
support e.g.
Architecture: any !arm
The db4.[234] series gets round lack of java support on arm and others
by simply specifying
Architecture: any
for the packages, modifying the rules file to exclude the impossible
builds and letting the final dpackaging harmlessly warn
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package libdb4.4-java in control file but
not in files list

This seems less painful that getting a new bug report every time a new
arch is created

Bless

  M


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