Re: Advice for upload of more than one architecture

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Xavier Grave wrote:
> I have successfully produced polyorb 2.8~20110207-2 for both amd64 
> and
> powerpc architecture. The buildd system fails to build the powerpc 
> one
> [1] and it seems that s390 and sparc suffer from the same problem. 
> Can I
> upload both amd64 and powerpc to solve part of the issue ? Can 
> somebody
> point me to some Debian policy/documentation that confirm or infirm 
> this
> wish ?

Yes, you can.  Here is a recipe:

* build on your primary machine with dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us.

* build on all other machines with dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b -B.

* scp all the *.deb and *.changes files onto your primary machine, next
  to the *.dsc file produced in the first build.

* face East, draw a magic pentagram on the floor around your chair and
  invoke the dark powers of:

  mergechanges -f ${package}*.changes    # (see the manpage for 
details)

* debsign *.dsc *_multi.changes

* dput *_multi.changes

--
Ludovic Brenta.