Re: rancid is strange configured

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

Op vr 31-01-2003, om 22:26 schreef Samuele Giovanni Tonon:
> 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-* ?

That would probably solve it.

> It's  Architecture: all so it has not to be compiled
> against other arch so it should be available in the distro for everyone ..

No, but buildd doesn't look at that.

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