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Re: Bug#799390: linuxbrew-wrapper: over-restrictive architecture setting?



Hi Aaron M. Ucko,

On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 13:11 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:

> linuxbrew-wrapper's control file declares amd64 to be the only
> supported architure.  Is that restriction really necessary?  From what
> I gather, Linuxbrew is perfectly capable of building software from
> source, so it should be no big deal if prebuilt binaries aren't
> available for other architectures.

Agree with you.
Linuxbrew upstream declares that it only supports amd64,
and there is only amd64 machines for me to test, so I wrote
amd64 in Architecture.

> Please consider changing the Architecture value to linux-any, or even
> any.

This is quoted from upstream README:

  Linuxbrew does not currently support 32-bit x86 platforms nor    
  platforms other than x86. It would be possible for Linuxbrew to
  work on 32-bit x86 platforms with some effort. 

which means users under ARCHs other than amd64 may need to take care
of themselves.

I don't think it's appropriate to bump Architecture from "amd64"
to a wildcard without sort of notice to user.

Thank you for reporting this issue!

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