Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390 ... [or have strict arch: control? ]

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

[Goswin von Brederlow]
> Which also avoids that packages will be unavailable on every new
> architecture debian introduces because the maintainer has to adjust
> the Architecture: line.

I suppose it'd be nice to be able to use !foo in the Architecture: line
for cases where something is known not to be supportable on a
particular small subset of arches, through toolchain bugs or whatever.

This smells like something dpkg/dpkg-source would have to support
directly, probably by substituting the list of arches into the field at
dpkg-source -b time.  Even so, I wonder if any external tools would
have a problem with the Architecture: line inside debian/control not
being the same as in the .dsc..

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