On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:24:22 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:

(i.e., over a decade ago -- time sure flies).

> > 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

Which is what I've been using since a few weeks after it was allowed :-)

> and as such I'm closing this request.

Sure. I'd completely forgotten about it, otherwise I would've done so myself.

Thanks,

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