Re: rancid is strange configured

[Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@linuxasylum.net>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:53:09PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 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.
uhm .. and if i put rancid-installer in non-free/net as long as 
all the rancid-* ? It's  Architecture: all so it has not to be compiled
against other arch so it should be available in the distro for everyone ..

> 
> > Is there something strange in the buildd process or is there something wrong 
> > in my ideas ?
> The latter :-)
as i thought .. :-)

thanks
Samuele

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