On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:18:40AM -0700, Robert Park wrote: > Up until a couple of days ago, I was blissfully ignorant of the fact > that some packages need to have different distropatches depending on > which arch the package is built for.
Rather than improving this method (which among other things makes it intrinsically impossible to use the modern 3.0 (quilt) source format properly), I strongly feel that we need to try very very very hard not to do this in the first place. lp:signon, for instance, could trivially mangle signond.conf in or shortly after the "make install"-type phase using architecture-specific code, rather than having architecture-specific patches. I'm not familiar with the framework used in lp:cordova-ubuntu-tests but it could at worst prepare a temporary autotest tree without too much effort before running it. This whole thing, to me, is an example of a tempting misdesign that is better avoided. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
