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Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all



On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:53:03PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > On 11/01/2008, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> >> And here's the list of packages which after comparing the md5sum files
> >> show no reason why they aren't arch all:
> >> 
> >> Grub Maintainers <pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> >>    grub
> > 
> > Again, there is a very good reason:
> > | /usr/sbin/grub: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> > | (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
> > | stripped
> > 
> >> Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
> >>    hol88-library
> > 
> > So, again, *how* do you find it possible to list this package as MUST be
> > Architecture: all, while it has things like that inside?
> > | … cut …
> > | /usr/lib/hol88-2.02.19940316/Library/pair/basic_ml.o: ELF 32-bit LSB
> > | relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
> > | /usr/lib/hol88-2.02.19940316/Library/pair/both1_ml.o: ELF 32-bit LSB
> > | relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
> > | usr/lib/hol88-2.02.19940316/Library/pair/both2_ml.o: ELF 32-bit LSB
> > | relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped … cut …
> 
> There "MUST" be something wrong with the package then, how is that i386's
> and amd64's md5sum are exactly the same?

I don't know about hol88-library, but grub builds with -m32 on amd64.
Nevertheless, it's still architecture-dependent; it builds different
binaries on Linux and the Hurd, and also the grub package should not be
in Packages for architectures to which it hasn't been ported.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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