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Re: Inconsistent Architecture?



On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:07:00AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> Subject: Re: Inconsistent Architecture?
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> > In debian/control, the Architecture field allows either "all", "any",
> > or a list of arches (from 4.2.3 in the Packaging Manual).  I'm
> > wondering why the ! notation from build dependencies hasn't also been
> > taken up here.  For example:
> >   Architecture: !i386 !alpha
> Would be especially useful for things like:
> 	Architecture: !hurd-i386

YES please - it would make things much easier for the s390 port to
exclude s390, instead of having to include all of todays ports today,
and have to fix it when the next $ARCH comes along tomorrow.

//rhi
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