Bug#626779: debian-policy: Improve Architecture field in source package (updated to match dpkg-source)
Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> With dpkg >= 1.16.1, the value of the Architecture field in the .dsc
> is generated a bit differently.
> The goal is to be able to always know when a source package generates an
> architecture-independent package. Currently as soon as one binary is
> "Architecture: any", the value generated is "any" and we have no way to
> know that there are "Architecture: all".
> With dpkg >= 1.16.1, the "all" is kept even if there's a binary package
> with "any". So the resulting value is then "any all". This allows
> wanna-build to know if it must schedule a build for the "Architecure: all"
> packages.
> The attached patch modifies the description of the Architecture field to
> match the new behaviour of dpkg-source.
> Seconds welcome.
[...]
Seconded.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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