Re: porting applications
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.
> That still means you should point upstream to buildd logs so he/she
> could make proper changes in his/her application.
will do so... however the buildd logs simply fail becuase the
architecture is set to m68k, which is unrecognized, so there are no
compile problems at all.
Micah
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