Hi, I’ve come across a situation which doesn’t seem to be addressed by existing policies: the python-ptrace source package only ships architecture-independent content, but it works on a small number of architectures (currently, 32/64-bit x86, 32-bit ARM, 32/64-bit PPC). As a result, the packages it builds are installable everywhere, but that’s a false promise since they don’t work everywhere. Would it make sense to convert it to an architecture-dependent package, only on those architectures which are really supported? (In this specific instance, there’s an optional CPython extension which would be interesting, so I’d switch to an architecture-dependent package for this anyway, were I to maintain the package; but I thought this was an interesting question in general.) Regards, Stephen
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