On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:54:05PM -0600, micah milano wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:47:48 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo > <fenio@debian.org> wrote: > > > Or should I be changing my architecture to be only those specific ones > > > that it is known to compile for (I guess no, because the Developers > > > Reference says you practically never want to do this). > > > > You *should* change its architectures if you are sure it won't work on > > them. Otherwise it will only get time to build on buildd. > > Ok, I put too much weight on the Developer's Reference section 5.10.1 > Being kind to porters, where it says: > > 2. Don't set architecture to a value other than ``all'' or ``any'' > unless you really mean it. In too many cases, maintainers don't follow > the instructions in the Debian Policy Manual. Setting your > architecture to ``i386'' is usually incorrect. > > I will change this to the relevant architectures in the control file. Before doing that you should understand why upstream restricted the application to these architectures. If it really doesn't work on the others, this is OK. But if upstream was just stupid or lazy it's not. If the application in fact works on mk68 it would be better to change the build script to accept the architecture and to send it upstream. Gaudenz
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