On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:07:00AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Subject: Re: Inconsistent Architecture? > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > In debian/control, the Architecture field allows either "all", "any", > > or a list of arches (from 4.2.3 in the Packaging Manual). I'm > > wondering why the ! notation from build dependencies hasn't also been > > taken up here. For example: > > Architecture: !i386 !alpha > Would be especially useful for things like: > Architecture: !hurd-i386
YES please - it would make things much easier for the s390 port to exclude s390, instead of having to include all of todays ports today, and have to fix it when the next $ARCH comes along tomorrow. //rhi -- This letter does not include my 20-line Corporate-Image .signature. Consider yourself lucky. Have a nice day ;-) Richard Higson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
