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

["Steven G. Johnson" <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Bill Allombert 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.

That's good to know, except what are the instructions of the Debian Policy
Manual on the subject?  I couldn't find any.