The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 18ac5167655f3db8a0c2c8a9a8fd338d6b5daa81
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Feb 1 05:03:59 2011 +0100
dpkg: Document packages w/o Architecture field need --force-architecture
The commit 58e7276b69be105735eccb3c18c2b28d3a2ec2e5 didn't explicitly
document this behavioural change, do so now.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3ccbae0..0f1d588 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ dpkg (1.16.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Always warn when parsing any package control data which does not have
an Architecture field except for status and status log files when
packages are not-installed or half-installed.
+ * By default reject installing packages w/o an Architecture field. They
+ now need --force-architecture, dpkg will still warn about them though.
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Fail properly when debian/source/format is empty. Closes: #600854
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index 68146f8..961ff12 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ any software not doing syncs before atomic renames.
losing data, use with care.\fP
\fBarchitecture\fP:
-Process even packages with the wrong architecture.
+Process even packages with wrong or no architecture.
\fBbad\-path\fP:
\fBPATH\fP is missing important programs, so problems are likely.
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 3fa3c78..dfbdb73 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ static void setforce(const struct cmdinfo *cip, const char
*value) {
" confask [!] Offer to replace config files with no new versions\n"
" breaks [!] Install even if it would break another package\n"
" conflicts [!] Allow installation of conflicting packages\n"
-" architecture [!] Process even packages with wrong architecture\n"
+" architecture [!] Process even packages with wrong or no
architecture\n"
" overwrite-dir [!] Overwrite one package's directory with another's
file\n"
" unsafe-io [!] Do not perform safe I/O operations when unpacking\n"
" remove-reinstreq [!] Remove packages which require installation\n"
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