Re: First steps towards source-only uploads
Hi,
Quoting Guillem Jover (2014-08-13 13:48:11)
> On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 13:27:38 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > There are also other problems that need to be eventually addressed: as far
> > as I know there are some source packages producing arch:all binaries that
> > cannot be built on all architectures. A Build-Architecture-Indep field was
> > proposed to indicate where it should be built in this case[1], but for now
> > I think we can require that maintainers have to upload the arch:all
> > packages in this case.
>
> I think all proposed field names in that thread are rather confusing.
> In Debian packaging lingo build means several things, it can mean at
> least the build machine (!= host machine), or it can mean the act of
> building.
>
> In the case of Build-Depends style fields, it's referring to the act
> of building, but Architecture is related to the host system/compiler,
> so mixing the different meanings would be messy, think for example
> about cross-compiling.
But is the question not *on* which architecture arch:all packages are built,
and would the term "build" in Build-Architecture-Indep thus not be correct in
both of its meanings (as "the architecture I'm building *on*" as well as "the
act of building")?
cheers, josch
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