Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:30:57 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 06:51:58 Julien Cristau wrote:
> > This makes it sound like you can't mix architecture names and
> > architecture wildcards. Is that on purpose?
>
> Current policy has this wording and I didn't want to change that, so
> yes, it's on purpose.
Not quite. Current policy says "arch list or 'any' or 'all'" and that's
fine (at least for debian/control), because it wouldn't make sense for a
binary package's Architecture field to be 'any' or 'all' *plus* an
explicit list of architectures.
(yes, .dsc might need different rules, but.)
> My assumption is that however wrote this part of policy meant 'or' to be
> inclusive, not exclusive.
>
Please reconsider your assumption :)
Cheers,
Julien
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