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Re: RFS: flamerobin



Kari Pahula wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:50:19PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>>> * debian/control: Architecture is set to "i386 amd64". What prevents
>>>   the package from being usable on other architectures? Are you sure
>>>   you don't mean "any"?
>> flamerobin depends on libfbclient1, which is currently available only
>> on i386 and amd64. Additionally, flamerobin Build-Depends on
>> firebird2-dev, which is also available only for i386 and amd64.
> 
> That's not a proper reason to set architectures.  Buildds can
> correctly detect if the build dependencies are missing on an
> architecture.  You should only set specific architectures if it is
> because of something related directly to your package.
> 
> If your dependencies were ever to come available to the missing
> architectures, you would need to make a new revision instead of just
> triggering a rebuild on the corresponding buildds.

I see. Better leave it in dep-wait state on (B-Deps-)unsupported
architectures than require a manual intervention to add an
architecture in the future.

Thanks, Kari.

For those interrested, this is documented in wanna-build-states[1]



Updated package is available at
ftp://shrek.creditreform.bg/public/pool/main/f/flamerobin/flamerobin_0.7.2-7.dsc

Please, consider checking/uploading it.

dam
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/wanna-build-states
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