Michael Stapelberg: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:01:54 +0100 Michael Stapelberg >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Package: debhelper >>> Version: 10.2.5 >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> Currently, when trying to build a Debian package whose binary packages >>> specify “€œArchitecture: arm64“€ on an amd64 machine, I get the >> following >>> error message: >>> >>> raspi3-firmware $ dh clean >>> dh: No packages to build. >>> >>> While this is technically correct, the error message could be way >>> friendlier: I’€™d suggest something along the lines of “No packages to >>> build (architecture mismatch: got amd64, want arm64)“€ . >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> [...] >> >> I am fine with getting patches for the better error messages. >> > > Perfect. Find attached a patch to that effect. > >
Thanks, I am not sure that it is safe to change the return value of package_arch(). E.g. it is used to determine the name of the binNMU changelog, and I suspect things will break if all binNMUs start to use "changelog.Debian.linux-any.gz" regardless architecture. :) >> >> Please keep in mind that the "want" part includes architecture >> wildcards, which debhelper doesn't deal with directly so far. >> > > I don’t follow. My patch displays the “want” part as-is. Shouldn’t that > give users all the information they need? > > [...] Right, it will show wildcards and that is what you intended. :) I agree it is better than the status quo, so lets go with that. Thanks, ~Niels
