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Re: massive bug report to replace "!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386" kludges with dpkg wildcards



Robert Millan wrote:

> Title and template description (below) is self-explanatory.  156
> packages are affected (list is attached).
> 
> Package: %package%
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: kfreebsd
> 
> The debian/control file in %package% uses a negated list of architectures
> to specify a package relationship (most likely Build-Depends) on a
> Linux-specific package.  I.e. something like:
> 
>   Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386]

Is anyone working on making this a lintian warning?

The package I uploaded last night would have been fixed if this
was caught by lintian :-).

Erik
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