Bug#221534: debian-installer: FTBFS mips (in a good way)

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:30:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers) writes:
> 
> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > dh_gencontrol -- -Vkernel:Package='kernel-image-2.4.19-r4k-ip22'
> > > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture mips does not appear in package's list (i386 powerpc ia64)
> > > > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
> > > > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > 
> > > > Please include arch mips.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The error doesn't occure on sparc.  Haven't seen reports from alpha.
> > > Wondering why MIPS people like Thiemo and Karsten didn't encounter it.
> [snip]
> > Are you running "debuild" or "dpkg-buildpackage"?
> > If your dpkg-gencontrol does not complain about the wrong arch there
> > is something seriously wrong.
> 
> No, up to now at least mipsel cannot be autobuilt, there is still manual
> work required, so I have not yet used dpkg-buildpackage.

Only have mips, whats the problem on mipsel?

MfG
        Goswin