Re: Bug#176627: when can a package be made architecture-dependent?
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:14:19PM -0800, Ron wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:21:55AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Declaring "Architecture: i386" because you haven't guaranteed yourself
> > that it will build is wrong, and Debian porters have been fighting
> > against this for years.
>
> Please note this isn't a general policy of mine, but right or wrong it
> did seem appropriate at least initially for this package in particular.
Right, cool :-) Thanks for the explanation; all looks good ...
> ps. While we're nagging -policy, does anyone have an opinion on
> uploading library packages built with this compiler? wxWindows,
> of which I'm on the upstream team and the debian maintainer, is
> perfectly capable of building msw-cross .debs. Using it, you can
> write C++ apps which will compile on all our supported arch's.
> wx however has two supported arch's that Debian does not.
I don't see anything wrong with this. We support people on Windows in
all kinds of little ways - take samba and wine, for instance - and as
long as there's nothing non-free in the package itself then it seems a
very useful thing to provide. IMHO, at least.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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