On Fri, 2026-02-27 at 14:15 +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > You are correct that I am running on amd64 and looking at a package > which was built on arm64. [...] > My point is that I don't believe anyone is building and uploading NEW > packages on i386 but increasingly people are doing so on arm64, and > so the search that lintian is doing through the list of _arch.changes > files it prints should really include _arm64.changes (and > realistically it could probably drop _i386.changes, but that's not > really necessary).
As Nilesh alluded to in a previous response, Lintian isn't using a hard-coded list here that includes i386 and could have arm64 added to it. Rather, it's using the set of architectures that your system knows about. The only hard-coded entries are "multi", "source", and "all". Anything else is determined at run-time, specifically: - $DEB_BUILD_ARCH, if set - the result of "dpkg --print-architecture" otherwise - $DEB_HOST_ARCH, if set - the result of "dpkg --print-foreign-architectures" The relevant section of the code is https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/bin/lintian?ref_type=heads#L880-909 Regards, Adam
