On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:46:22 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Goswin von Brederlow] > > On the other hand limiting the architectures in debian/control has no > > effect at all for buildds (or wanna-build). The relevant file would > > be the Packages-Arch-Specific file. > > I've heard this for years. Why do we have an Architecture: field at > all, instead of just Arch-Specific: yes or no? Because in some cases, not all architectures build the same subset of binary packages. The architecture field lets the packaging tools know what debs to build. Cheers, Julien
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