Re: no arch debs

["Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:53:58PM +0000, David H. Askew wrote:
> I am building some unofficial(for now) debs for jedit... and have
> completed building them for the x86 arch .. and I got to thinking of
> something... is it possible to build debs without a dependent arch?
> 
> ..since jedit is written in java ... its technically platform
> independent ... is it possible to produce debs that will install on any
> platform? and if so .. what should I read? 
> 
> .. if not ... Is it the infrastructure, by the way its setup via
> porters, that make this impossible .. ?
> 
> 
> ...Dave

You set Architecture: all rather than Architecture: any in the control file
and upload the debs. This is used on a lot of things, actually, at least
for packages which are mainly documentation, or have <foo>-common which is
shared-between-arches stuff.
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