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

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> writes:

> [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.

As a sidenote, wanna-build and buildd completly ignore the
architecture line (apart from arch:all) and build packages anyway.

Anything in the control file is purely informative to the buildd admin
at this point.

MfG
        Goswin