Re: Concerns about AMD64 port

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:40:55AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tony Hoyle (tmh@nodomain.org) wrote:
> > With that example you're going to have to rebuild every package for i386 
> > as well.  Fundamental changes to the packaging system will require that 
> > anyway.
> 
> Eh, not necessairly, people were saying that there could be assumptions
> made that if the field isn't there then it's whatever the original way
> was.  That would avoid having to rebuild the i386 debs.

I might at this point direct people's attention to the binary-only NMU
procedure here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-porter-guidelines

-- John