On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:09:53PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:56:50PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2004-06-07 Mattia Dongili <dongili@supereva.it> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:03:04AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > [...] > > > > Personally I'd immediately change the architecture field and change it > > > > back once there is a xserver for s390. - You'll probably have to > > > > pester ftp-master to remove the old s390 binary, otherwise > > > > xfree86-driver-synaptics will be blocked by "out of date on s390". > > > I finally opted for this solution. The package is ready to be uploaded, > > > but how am I supposed to proceed now? ask for removal first and then > > > upload or the opposite? > > Do both instead of waiting. There is no problem if the s390 buildd > > tries to build xfree86-driver-synaptics before the binary has been > > removed (and xfree86-driver-synaptics has been added to > > http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/Packages-arch-specific), the build > > will simply fail because dpkg-buildpackage (or is it sbuild?) checks > > the architecture field. > sorry for being so pedantic. Today a bug has been submitted (#253616) > regarding this issue. The submitter states that the control file for > xfree86 states xserver-xfree86 is > Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa hurd-i386 i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel > netbsd-i386 powerpc sh3 sh4 sparc > but xserver-xfree86 is only available on alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k > mips mipsel powerpc sparc [1] > so removing only s390 from the Architecture field of > xfree86-driver-synaptics may not be enough, right? So the correct > solution would be to only Suggest: xserver-xfree86 (>> 4.1.0) No, the correct solution is to ensure the xfree86-driver-synaptics package isn't built on architectures where it's known to be useless. Has this package been added to the packages-architecture-specific list for the autobuilders? If not, it's my understanding that it should be; and then the package that's already been built on s390 should be removed. The other architectures in the xfree86 control file can be ignored -- they don't have autobuilders that are uploading to the archive. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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