Bug#530687: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (01/06/2010): +Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that +the source will build an architecture-dependent package on +the union of the lists of architectures from the expansion +

Bug#530687: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:41:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: - architectures separated by spaces. If ttany/tt or - ttall/tt appear, they must be the entire contents of the - field. [...] + spaces. If ttall/tt appears, that value must be the + entire

Bug#530687: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be writes: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:41:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: -architectures separated by spaces. If ttany/tt or -ttall/tt appear, they must be the entire contents of the -field. [...] +spaces. If ttall/tt appears, that

Bug#530687: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Here's a new wording proposal for this bug based on Manoj's previous patch with some minor modifications from subsequent discussion. I'm looking for seconds; this material is rather overdue for making it into Policy. diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index ab8fedf..3c3d556 100644 ---

Bug#530687: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:17:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: p In the main filedebian/control/file file in the source - package, this field may contain the special value - ttany/tt, the special value ttall/tt, or a list of - architectures separated

Bug#530687: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:17:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: -program should be made portable instead. +package, this field may contain special value ttall/tt or ^ en_RU? :)