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

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Subject: Re: Lintian magic-arch-in-arch-list
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:42:20 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 87k534l1gj.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] slrnh3umcl.fli.trash@durotan.0x539.de> (Philipp Kern's message of "Mon\, 22 Jun 2009 10\:14\:45 +0000 \(UTC\)")
References: <[🔎] 7f45d9390906212337g3302f60eg68ddcba396cd0fc2@mail.gmail.com> <[🔎] slrnh3umcl.fli.trash@durotan.0x539.de>

Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de> writes:

> 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.

Both Lintian and Policy, in fact.  Policy will be fixed in the next
release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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