On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:28:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Support for architecture wildcards has been added to dpkg-1.13.13. This
>> patch, based on a proposal from Andres Mejia, provides policy on how
>> architecture wildcards should be used for other tools such as sbuild and
>> pbuilder. This patch has tracked and incorporated suggestions embedded
>> the discussion of the proposal. It also brings policy up to speed and in
>> line with dpkg-dev which appears to generate an Architecture line that
>> includes both architectures and special values like "all".
> [snip]
>> + lists.<footnote> As mentioned in the footnote for
>> + specifying a list of architectures, this is a settings for
> A minor point, but should this not be "a setting"?
Thanks, fixed locally.
>> + a minority of cases where the program is not
>> + portable. Generally, it should not be used for new
>> + packages. Also note that the wildcards are not expanded
>> + then compared, they are simply matched. </footnote> If
If there are no substantive objections to this wording, I'll
send in the new version and ask for seconds in a day or so.
manoj
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