Re: invalid and duplicate architectures

[Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>]

Hi,

and thank you everybody for your replies! :)

Quoting Niels Thykier (2014-05-24 08:42:52)
> On 2014-05-24 04:16, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Johannes Schauer  wrote:
> > 
> >>> In my code I counted all debian architectures as "valid" which are
> >>> listed on packages.debian.net. Is there a better way to retrieve
> >>> "valid" architectures in this context?
> > 
> >> Dpkg::Arch::get_valid_arches, which looks at /usr/share/dpkg/*table
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure that Lintian already uses that data to check whether
> > architectures are valid (I vaguely remember working on that code), but it
> > may well be that the existing check doesn't get the wildcards right.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Honestly, I am pretty sure the validator gets wildcards right.  I
> remember re-implementing that part of the Lintian code and ran into the
> exact problem[1].
> 
> I am more inclined to believe that the problem is that there is /no/
> validation of the "Architecture" field in d/control of the source
> package.  At least a quick scan of checks/control-file.pm suggests this
> to be the case.

I tested this with src:picolisp (= 3.1.6.1) which has "any-armhf" in the
Architecture field of the picolisp binary package it builds and lintian does
not issue a warning about it. I'll post a bugreport about this to lintian.

Thanks!

cheers, josch