Re: Bug#55356: packaging-manual: Please clarify multiple architectures WRT control file
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 05:18:48PM +0100, Roman Hodek wrote:
>
> > The fact that most maintainers don't need to perform builds on the
> > non-x86 architectures could use some clarification.
>
> The programmer's reference by Adam contains a fine section about
> portability etc.
Nevertheless, it would be a good idea for the packaging manual to say
that "Usually the architecture field should be either "all" or "any".
Only use a different setting if you know that your package is specific
to certain architectures. See the notes on portability in the
Developer's Reference for more details on porting packages to other
architectures."
Julian
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