Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (12/11/2009): > Architecture-independent packages are packages that will function on > any architecture supported by Debian. While I can think of plenty of Perl packages where it's about “functioning”, there are also a lot of data packages around, so I'm not sure “function” is the best term here. > They generally should not contain any compiled binaries, since these > would be specific to a particular architecture. There could be architecture-specific headers, paths, config files maybe, etc. Maybe prepend that with “In particular,”? > Programs that must be compiled for each architecture must be > distributed in separate architecture-dependent packages for each > architecture, not as one architecture-independent package containing > all the binaries. Heh, never thought of that. :)) Mraw, KiBi.
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