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Re: build profile syntax ideas



Hi,

Quoting Wookey (2013-08-16 03:59:45)
> In the interests of making some progress, I suggest that we simply say that
> arches and profiles can't be mixed in a [], as otherwise we'd have to change
> the dpkg API, and no-one seems very keen on that.

In addition, once needed, mixing architectures and profiles could be a later
addition without having to change syntax again.

> Build-Depends foo [arch.i386 !profile.cross]"
> 
> Is changed to say that you can't do that, and have to do [i386]
> [!profile.cross] instead.

No, without being able to mix namespaces/prefixes it would expand to:

Build-Depends: foo [i386], foo [!profile.cross]

cheers, josch


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