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

[Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:33 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.)
> 
> Ok, here's the wording current policy.
> "one may specify a list of architectures separated by spaces, or the special 
> values any or all."
> 
> Here's part of my proposal.
> one may specify a list of architectures separated by spaces, a list of 
> architecture wildcards separated by spaces, or the special values any or all.

As a native english speaker that wording seems to me to imply (list of
specific and/or wildcard architectures) or (any) or (all), which seems
to be what you intend, but I guess it is open to possible
misinterpretation in the manner Julien suggests.

How about:

"... a list of specific and wildcard architectures separated by spaces,
or the special values 'any' or 'all'."


Cheers,
					Andrew.

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