Bug#2500: emacs and architecture dependencies
Juergen Menden writes ("Bug#2500: emacs and architecture dependencies"):
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> i'm not sure if this is better or worse. what is the advantage
> of adding such a field in the control file?
It allows dpkg to prevent you from installing a package intended for
one architecture on a system which has a different architecture.
Doing this by mistake could make your system badly broken ...
The control file architecture name should be the one printed by
`dpkg --print-architecture'.
Ian.
PS: Ian Murdock removed from the CC list.
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