Hello Wouter, * Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> [2005-04-17 11:10]: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:21:36PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > > I read the policy, I know what it says. > > Okay, good :) > > (it would've helped if you had mentioned the following in your original > mail...) ok next time :) > * Jeroen: > > Please also try to make your package actually FTBFS on systems not > > supporting acpi, if that's possible, besides limiting the Architecture > > line as you've already done. > > For one thing, when using dpkg-buildpackage, a package will FTBFS if the > Architecture line doesn't contain the architecture you're building on > (unless I'm mistaken, but I don't think I am). Yes right: Automatic build of yacpi_1.2.1-1 on goedel by sbuild/alpha 17 Build started at 20050331-1936 ****************************************************************************** Checking available source versions... Fetching source files... Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Need to get 21.6kB of source archives. Get:1 http://incoming.debian.org yacpi 1.2.1-1 (dsc) [577B] Get:2 http://incoming.debian.org yacpi 1.2.1-1 (tar) [19.4kB] Get:3 http://incoming.debian.org yacpi 1.2.1-1 (diff) [1698B] Fetched 21.6kB in 0s (42.3kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode : alpha not in arch list: i386 ia64 amd64 -- skipping > That being said, I'm not sure this is necessary. For starters, Jeroen > included the "if that's possible" bit; but apart from that, it's not > because the ACPI interface does not exist for an architecture today that > it will never exist; it's not completely impossible that one day, > someone will make a PowerPC-based system with an ACPI interface, even if > it is unlikely. At that point, it'd be nice if the package would build > for PowerPC without /too/ much effort. And as long as it won't build on > PowerPC today, your job is done, I'd say. OK thanks very much for the further information. Regards Nico -- Nico Golde - 310777820@ICQ | GPG: 1024D/73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org VIM has two modes - the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't -- encrypted mail preferred
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