Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

[Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 06:51:58 Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:50:42 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> > @@ -2723,7 +2725,8 @@ Package: libc6
> >  	    In the main <file>debian/control</file> file in the source
> >  	    package, or in the source package control file
> >  	    <file>.dsc</file>, one may specify a list of architectures
> > -	    separated by spaces, or the special values <tt>any</tt> or
> > +	    separated by spaces, a list of architecture wildcards separated by
> > +	    spaces, or the special values <tt>any</tt> or
> >  	    <tt>all</tt>.
> >  	  </p>
>
> This makes it sound like you can't mix architecture names and
> architecture wildcards.  Is that on purpose?
>
> Cheers,
> Julien

Current policy has this wording and I didn't want to change that, so yes, it's 
on purpose.

My assumption is that however wrote this part of policy meant 'or' to be 
inclusive, not exclusive.

Somebody already raised this issue about current policy. See [1].

1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2009/05/msg00108.html

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Regards,
Andres