Re: Bug#397917: gsynaptics - lists s390 as supported
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:17:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Package: gsynaptics
> > Version: 0.9.7-1
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > gsynaptics lists s390 as supported (Architecture: any) but
> > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is not available. This leads to
> > uninstallable binary packages.
>
> I see. But xserver-xorg-input-synaptics has
>
> Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc sparc
it was "Architecture: any" with a quinn-diff[1] entry in the past, and
s390 was not supported because xserver-xfree86 wasn't available there.
> This looks agry. Because I need to track new architectures.
>
> Can I do
>
> Architecture: !s390
>
> Anyone have suggestion?
This is ok until you have to add one more unsupported arch to the list.
I think the trade-off here is if you want to add new supported
or unsupported architectures, the latter implying you may need to ask
for removal of the binary (as in the current case for s390), the former
implying a new upload.
Here the discussion I had some time ago:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-mentors@lists.debian.org/msg12969.html
Currently (AFAICT) xserver-xorg-input-synaptics seems to be installable
on s390 but maybe it doesn't make much sense...
[1]: http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/Packages-arch-specific
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mattia
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