* Julian Andres Klode | 2010-06-21 23:09:47 [+0200]: >Architecture wildcards should not be used prior to Squeeze + 1. They are >currently not implemented by APT and other programs using libapt-pkg to Depending on linux-gnu breaks armel and powerpcspe. The former is a release arch, reason enough to do something about it :) Opening bug reports to replace linux-gnu with linux is not optimal because I have to do the same thing to replace it with linux-any. So it is more work for the package maintainer and the porter. Plus if you ban linux-any for now then every one in debian-ports will ask a couple of package maintainer to add their architecture to the specific package (and replace it later with linux-any). So I don't think it is a good idea to push especially since there are a few packages using it.
>I do not know whether we already have a bug report about it in APT; and >I do not know whether the other packages have bug reports; it would be >great if someone could take a look at this, so the toolchain can be >fixed to support wildcards before we start using them. acpid has linux-any in its arch field and it works. gxine has linux-any in its build-depends. pbuilder does not work but has patches available which make it work according #363193. apt #547724 does not work in terms of apt-get build-dep. Right now I guess apt is the one which has no support and I plan to do something about it :) Once that is resolved I there should be no problems with the wildcards. >Regards, >Julian Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org