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Re: Lintian magic-arch-in-arch-list



On 2009-06-22, Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a source package with two binary packages. One binary package
> is arch i386 amd64, the other is arch all containing the
> architecture-independent data files. The resulting dsc file is
> Architecture: amd64 i386 all
> which lintan complains about:
> E: eagle source: magic-arch-in-arch-list
>
> I'm guessing that the architecture line should omit all:
> Architecture: amd64 i386

As explained lintian was wrong after I dropped the bit that collapsed
"amd64 i386 all" to "any" in dpkg-source.  The problem is that we lost
information about what needs to be built where.  "any" if there is
one i386 and one all binary package is just plain wrong, IMHO.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern


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