Hi! [ I had a note to reply to the previous thread, but never got to it. ]
On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 13:27:38 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On 08/12/2014 12:33, Hector Oron wrote: > > 2014-08-01 9:37 GMT+02:00 Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org>: > >> We will allow not including arch:all packages in uploads once we have > >> sorted out how to get them built. > > > > Has it been already discussed? If so, where? > There are also other problems that need to be eventually addressed: as > far as I know there are some source packages producing arch:all binaries > that cannot be built on all architectures. A Build-Architecture-Indep > field was proposed to indicate where it should be built in this case[1], > but for now I think we can require that maintainers have to upload the > arch:all packages in this case. I think all proposed field names in that thread are rather confusing. In Debian packaging lingo build means several things, it can mean at least the build machine (!= host machine), or it can mean the act of building. In the case of Build-Depends style fields, it's referring to the act of building, but Architecture is related to the host system/compiler, so mixing the different meanings would be messy, think for example about cross-compiling. > [1] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg01149.html> Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140813114811.ga13...@gaara.hadrons.org