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Re: Architecture in _changes file?



On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 02:49:31PM -0700, Devin Carraway wrote:
> Something that's been vaguely prodding at me for a while -- when I build
> an architecture-all package, the .deb produced is named
> packagename_v-r_all.deb as I'd expect, but the build also makes a
> packagename_v-r_{arch}.changes file for the architecture on which I
> built the thing.  Why is that?  Am I making a mistake somewhere?

It just uses your build machine's architecture string, but it doesn't affect
anything. You might as well replace the arch string with foo in the file
name, it wouldn't make a difference, I don't think :)

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