Re: rancid is strange configured

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

Op do 30-01-2003, om 18:17 schreef Samuele Giovanni Tonon:
[...]
> Source: rancid
> Section: non-free/net
> [...]
> 
> Package: rancid-core
> Architecture: i386
> [...]
> 
> Package: rancid-installer
> Section: net
> Architecture: all
>  
> 
> this thing seems to have something strange: from when i added rancid-installer
> buildd try to compile all the rancid  stuff for every arch, but it shouldn't .

No, but you're breaking policy. You can't build a package in main and
one in non-free from the same source package; the source package has to
go where the binary package goes.

That's why buildd doesn't have any intelligence built in to avoid this
stuff: since it should be a non-issue anyway.

Please split the -installer package off of the other ones.

> Is there something strange in the buildd process or is there something wrong 
> in my ideas ?

The latter :-)

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