Fwd: Any way to apply patch on some archs only?

[olivier sallou <olivier.sallou@gmail.com>]

Forgot to CC the list

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From: olivier sallou <olivier.sallou@gmail.com>
Date: jeu. 29 janv. 2015 15:20
Subject: Re: Any way to apply patch on some archs only?
To: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Sorry for quoting, sent from my phone...
Yes this is this bug. Upstream will add conditions in code (ifdef...). This is fine because it is C, but for some other languages it may be more complex to test this.

Le jeu. 29 janv. 2015 14:58, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> a écrit :

olivier sallou writes ("Re: Any way to apply patch on some archs only?"):
> Le Thu Jan 29 2015 at 9:58:18 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> a écrit :
> > Please post some details of the bug, the patch you want to apply and
> > which package you are talking about so that we can give you a better
> > answer to your question.

I think it's this one
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765285

> As I said, I can manage it for my current bug, but my question is a more
> general question.

Have I found the `current bug' you are thinking of ?

Ian.