Bug#846970: Patch to document Build-Indep-Architecture field

[Jess Hall <jgh@jgh.me.uk>]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14 2017, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:15:10AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >> +maintainer's control.  The specification should entail that the
> >> +architecture-independent packages are buildable on at least two
> >> +architectures.

[...]

> > Also, I dislike the sentence in itself, I believe it should be more
> > straightforward in conveying its meaning of "pretty please at least
> > two arch".
> 
> It has to be that way for cases like this:
> 
>     Build-Indep-architecture: !amd64
> 
> That entails that it builds on at least two architectures, but on a
> common reading of 'specify', it does not specify two archs.

How about "You should not specify that the packages are buildable on
only one architecture."?

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Jess Hall