On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:51:03AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > > It doesn't matter what the source package says anyway. In order to get > > s390 to stop building it, you need to get it added to > > Packages-arch-specific. > > That is not completely correct. > > Using 'Architecture: [!s390]' accomplishes some things: > > * no accidental (manual?) build on s390. > * the autobuilders will not *successfully* build it. (The buildlog > will say something like 's390 not in list of supported archs') > * it serves for documentation. > > An (additional) entry in Packages-Arch-Specific is just cleaner and > nicer, because the buildd will not even /try/ to build the package.
I based my assumption on the fact that xserver-xfree86 has 'Architecture: any' and an entry in Packages-arch-specific. I'm a little confused now. > And all this is orthogonal to the requirement that the existing s390 > binaries in archive need to *also* be removed, using a bug-report > against ftp.debian.org. fine, I'll submit the bug asap -- mattia :wq!
