Re: when can a package be made architecture-dependent?

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

Steven G. Johnson wrote:

>It would be very helpful if this position were explicitly stated in Debian
>Policy, especially if people have been "fighting against this for years."

Debian developer reference 5.3.1 states that

     2.   Don't set architecture to a value other than ``all'' or ``any''
          unless you really mean it.  In too many cases, maintainers don't
          follow the instructions in the Debian Policy Manual
          (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/).  Setting your
          architecture to ``i386'' is usually incorrect.


Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>