I've just tried building netcfg on s390, but that fails with:
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 's390' does not
appear in package's architecture list (i386 sparc alpha m68k arm
armel armeb powerpc mips mipsel hppa ia64 amd64 lpia kfreebsd-i386
kfreebsd-amd64)
dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol returned exit code 255
AFAICT the reason is that the binary netcfg is !s390 (while netcfg-static
is arch any).
Before the conversion to debhelper v7, we called most dh_command with
the '-s' option. If I add an overrides in d/rules for dh_gencontrol *and*
dh_builddeb to pass the -s option, netcfg builds correctly again.
I wonder why this is needed? Shouldn't this "just work"?
Is there a better solution than adding the overrides?
Maybe 'dh -s $@', but I'd expect that will cause an error where we copy
templates in override_dh_installdebconf...
I also wonder if other converted packages could have the same issue.
Cheers,
FJP
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