Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

    Brian> 1. review Gordon's proposal, from
    Brian> <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy-9903/msg00005.html>
    Brian> (phew... took me long enough to find it - the search engine
    Brian> seems to a buggy, and didn't report any results before
    Brian> 2000.)

Replace that above URL with this one:

<URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy-9904/msg00000.html>

I think this one will be more interesting (the other thread contains a
lot of irrelevant discussion on the maintainer field; the first one or
two messages may be interesting reading though).

Also see:

<URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy-9903/msg00112.html>

Now I am starting to remember. Gordon's proposal was more then just a
quick fix for "architecture: all" problems, it was a more general
solution to the overall "architecture: any" hack, too (among other
things).

So, for instance you would say:

Arch-Depends: ${cpu}, ${system}, proc

and the fields would automatically be filled in at compile time.  Of
course, I am still reading the details.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>