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On Thursday 19 June 2003 01:21, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > What you're proposing here is a very different approach to the
> > one you outlined above. Instead of changing the value of some
> > fields, this builds a binary package or skips it conditionally based
> > on a definition. Either way can be used to solve the problem
> > but we should decide for one of them instead of supporting both.
>
> Well, it's been slightly discussed to support #ifdef like functionality,
> and comments, in debian/control
AFAICS, when we have #ifdef in debian/control, there would be
no need for 'Package.64:' any more:
%if ! ${lib64_arch}
Package: libfoo1
%else
Package: lib64foo1
%endif
Architecture: any
Description: base libraries for the bar project
The foo1 library provides foo to bar applications
%if ${lib64_arch}
