Re: Packaging lerc

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

On 11/1/21 18:52, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 11/1/21 18:27, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> > > Why is the list of architectures restricted in debian/control?
> >
> > LERC does not support bigendian architectures
>
> Might be better to use Architecture: any and just have the build fail on 
> those architectures, any new LE architectures won't need changes to the 
> architecture list.

I've recently learned about the architecture-properties package which 
provides architecture-is-<32|64>-bit and 
architecture-is-<little|big>-endian. Using this makes the package 
BD-Uninstallable on architectures which don't match the requirement.

osmium-tool uses Spaten which only supports little endian, so I've added 
architecture-is-little-endian to its build dependencies to make this 
explicit.

This seems like a good option for lerc too, no time will be wasted 
building the package on big endian architectures where it will just fail.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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