Bug#949258: debian-policy: Support negated architecture specifications in debian/control Architecture field

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:57 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > I didn't find a previous discussion on this: it would be useful to > > support negated architecture specifications in the debian/control > >

Bug#949258: debian-policy: Support negated architecture specifications in debian/control Architecture field

2023-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > Agreed, but it might be good to say "it would be good to have this", and > send a bug/mail to the relevant teams, asking if there are objections > before anyone spends work to implement this. > I for one have currently no less than three related ideas: > * this > *

Bug#949258: debian-policy: Support negated architecture specifications in debian/control Architecture field

2023-09-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 02:53:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Architecture: !s390 !s390x > > Architecture: !hppa !hurd-any !kfreebsd-any > > Architecture: linux-any kfreebsd-any !hppa !m68k-any > > which would be understood as [ (linux-any or kfreebsd-any) and not

Bug#949258: debian-policy: Support negated architecture specifications in debian/control Architecture field

2023-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > I didn't find a previous discussion on this: it would be useful to > support negated architecture specifications in the debian/control > Architecture field, so that we can e.g. write: > Architecture: !s390 !s390x > (for xorg stuff) > Architecture: !hppa !hurd-any

Bug#949258: debian-policy: Support negated architecture specifications in debian/control Architecture field

2020-01-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.4.1.2 Severity: normal Hello, I didn't find a previous discussion on this: it would be useful to support negated architecture specifications in the debian/control Architecture field, so that we can e.g. write: Architecture: !s390 !s390x (for xorg stuff)