On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 05:43:27PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Sunday 12 August 2007 13:35:02 Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Reinhard Tartler [Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:27:50 +0200]: > > > "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is is possible to make the equivalent of an Architecture: any package > > > > except that it excludes one or two specific architectures?
> > > I think the best you can do is to write a check for that specific > > > architecture in the package's preinst script, and abort the > > > installation if it is being installed on that 'blacklisted' > > > architecture. > > Uuh, that doesn't sound right. The correct thing to do would be to > > ensure the package does not build on the broken architectures, and > > remove the binaries from unstable. > Won't this then prevent the package from migrating to testing, because it's > arch: any, but failing to build on a release arch? "and remove the binaries from unstable." The criterion for migration to testing is *not*, and never has been, that the package build on architectures; the criterion is that the package must not have any out-of-date binaries in unstable, which can be dealt with by 1) making sure the package builds on all architectures, 2) getting the ftp team to agree to remove the out-of-date binaries, or 3) ensuring in advance that the package never gets built on architectures where it doesn't belong. This is a proxy for the requirement that packages be supported "on as many architectures as is reasonably possible." If the package is not supported on a given architecture, the binaries of that package for the architecture in question should not be in the archive (and particularly, not in testing), but it is *not* the role of the testing migration scripts to make decisions about whether a package is supported for an architecture, only to ensure consistency between architectures. The decision of whether a package is supported is one that has to be made by the package maintainer and the porters. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
