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Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?



Previously Roman Hodek wrote:
> Oh, I see, you probably mean the control file of packages. Then we
> have the following problem: The name of the builder is available only
> in dpkg-buildpackage and passed to dpkg-genchanges. dpkg-gencontrol
> never sees it... expect we make some tricks with environment variables
> or the like.

Indeed.

> What's then the difference in semantics of Maintainer: and Uploader:
> in the .changes? Maintainer: always the source maintainer, and
> Uploader: is different only for NMUs?

NMU's and recompiles for other architectures.

Wichert.

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