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Re: Inconsistent Architecture?



Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> > In debian/control, the Architecture field allows either "all", "any",
> > or a list of arches (from 4.2.3 in the Packaging Manual).  I'm
> > wondering why the ! notation from build dependencies hasn't also been
> > taken up here.  For example:
> > 
> >   Architecture: !i386 !alpha
> 
> Would be especially useful for things like:
> 
> 	Architecture: !hurd-i386
> 
> For Linux, only things.

No, those things should really have

Architecture: linux

since if we have a Debian that uses the BSD kernel...



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