Your message dated Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:33:13 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#112325: dpkg-gencontrol: mistakes hurd-i386 for i386
has caused the Debian Bug report #112325,
regarding dpkg-dev: should allow exclusion of architectures
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Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.9.17
Severity: normal
one of my packages, nbd-client, requires kernel support from the Linux
kernel. So, it won't run on The Hurd (currently the only non-linux port in
the archive), which is why I added a line like
Architecture: !hurd-i386
to the controlfile, thereby assuming that nbd-client will be built on all
architectures but The Hurd. However, when trying to build nbd on my
personal system (an i386), I get an error:
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture i386 does not appear in
package's list (!(hurd-i386))
-- System Information
Debian release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux rock 2.4.9 #3 vr aug 17 20:18:58 CEST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=nl_BE, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.11.90.0.31-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.4.2-37 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii make 3.79.1-10 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.4-5 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.6.1-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.6.1-5 Core Perl modules.
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Hi!
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:24:22 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> reopen 112325
> severity 112325 wishlist
>
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> > Previously Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > Architecture: !hurd-i386
> >
> > That is not a valid syntax, exclusions are not supported there. You have
> > to give the full list of architectures.
>
> I tried to do it that way since it's easier to maintain, as compared
> to a nearly-full list of architectures. If not valid currently, please
> consider allowing this syntax somewhere in the future (that would be
> after woody's release, probably).
Using the negated list has the problem that it's not really correct,
because the package will only build on a positive set of
architectures, it would need to be updated whenever new architectures
that do not support the package get introduced and will cause issues
for third party distributions building for architectures not supported
by Debian.
Now that we have architecture wildcards your specific problem can be
solved more cleanly with just:
Architecture: linux-any
and as such I'm closing this request.
thanks,
guillem
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