Re: Questian about Architecture

[Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:35:20PM +0100, Marco Kuhlmann wrote:
> I do not quite seem to understand what I have to do in order to
> prevent a source package being ported to certain architectures.
> Do I have to write Architecture entries for the supported
> architectures for all the packages that my source package
> provides?  It does not seem to be possible to write one
> Architecture entry for the whole source package.

If it's not totally clear that your package won't run on other arches
(because it depends on a Pentium FDIV-bug or whatever), you should put
Arch: any in debian/control and check buildd.debian.org. If something
breaks, fix it.

Michael

-- 
<mstone> if the entry is there, I should be able to have ascii art of
         my ass at the bottom of the file and shouldn't matter. But
         if I do something dumb and something dumb happens, <shrug>