Re: QUestions about packaging debian .debs

[Britton <fsblk@aurora.uaf.edu>]

> Second question:  I am making a .deb that is for any platform (it is a
> perl script/config files.  But when I do the dpkg-buidpackage it makes
> the deb blahblahblah_i386.deb although in the config files I have stated
> that is for any platform.  What am I doing wrong?

In your control file, you want 'Architecture: all', not
'Architecture: any'.  The only remaining issue is if your package depends
on binary packages that aren't 'Architecture: any' (your package may end
up existing for some architectures but not being installable on them in
practice).  But last I heard this is the best solution at the moment.

Britton