On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 09:57:55AM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Santiago Vila:
> > If we had a case like this, an architecture field in the source
> > package saying "i386 all" would mean that we could do all this:
> >
> > "dpkg-buildpackage" under i386 to build the i386.deb and the all.deb.
> >
Santiago Vila:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:12:50AM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > I think the question can be phrased as: should architecture-independent
> > packages be buildable on all architectures?
> >
> > My own answer would be: yes, as long as they don't mandate a particular
> > architectu
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:12:50AM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> I think the question can be phrased as: should architecture-independent
> packages be buildable on all architectures?
>
> My own answer would be: yes, as long as they don't mandate a particular
> architecture in their Build-Depends-I
Santiago Vila:
> Let's take cmucl as an example:
>
> Package: cmucl
> Architecture: i386 all
>
> It has "all", yes, but implicitly I take the Architecture line
> as saying that I should only try to build the "Arch: all" package
> using a i386 autobuilder.
>
>
> Does this make sense?
I think th