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Re: kdrill upload



On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:38:25PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote:
> I just uploaded the latest release of "kdrill", which I have taken over as
> maintainer from Fabien Ninoles.
> 
> I tried to be "clever" and upload binaries for all architectures I had
> access to: arm, sparc, i386, alpha.
>  [the debian powerpc machine is listed as "down"]
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, there is a small gotcha, in that there are thus multiple
>  *.changes
> files, which all reference a single cross-architecture package:
> 
> kanadic_5.10-1_all.deb
> 
> If this creates problems for the current maintainer/system, please let me
> know of a better way to do this.

That won't install.

What you need to do is build the package using -B (or debian/rules
binary-arch for the so inclined).  If an _all package is still built
after doing that, it's a bug in your packaging.

Dan

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