On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:45:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Have you any concrete usage scenario in which it can be useful?
> It should be used to automatically set the set of Architectures of native
> arches in the control file, as well as used in addition or instead of the
> actual .opt detection we do now, altough this second feature is maybe not all
> that important.
Got it, an example we already have is the ocaml package itself. Another
more hypothetical example is a package that has a relationship with
another package which is available only on native architectures (using
[] dependencies).
So the idea is to have a @OCamlNativeArchs@ in debian/control.in,
automatically filled by CDBS when DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL is set
(that variable is already provided by CDBS and used for other
substitutions).
I like it, but implementing it is not easy due to the non-extensible way
of filling debian/control.in actually implemented in CDBS.
I followed up to #387299 asking CDBS maintainers what they think of an
extensible way to fill debian/control.in ...
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