Bug#24714: dpkg-genchanges requires all packages listed in controlfile be built

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Anders Hammarquist <iko@netg.se> writes:

> Package: dpkg-dev
> Version: 1.4.0.24
> 
> dpkg-genchanges requires that all packages listed in control and
> which it thinks are buildable on the current architecture be built.

Which is intentional.

> This is not ideal, since it requires either editing of the control
> file for most (all?)

No, not all, most (?) know which architectures to build libc5-compat
libraries on (see any of mine).

> sources which generates libc5-compat libraries or editing of
> dpkg-genchanges to not complain about the missing packages.

The correct thing to do here is fix the packages which are building
libc5-compat packages on architectures which don't want them.

-- 
James
~Yawn And Walk North~                                  http://yawn.nocrew.org/


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