Bug#579843: Looks good, but maybe invert the arch list?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:53:26PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> Hmm, most of the other packages (dpkg, etc) invert that arch list, so
> instead of this:
>   libselinux1-dev (>= 1.28-4) [alpha amd64 arm armeb armel hppa i386 ia64
> m68k mips mipsel powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 s390 sh4 sparc]
> 
> They have this:
>   libselinux1-dev (>= 1.28-4) [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64]
> 
> Admittedly long-term if Debian ends up supporting many non-linux platforms
> dpkg may need to support a better syntax, but for now mimicing dpkg WRT the
> selinux build-dep is probably the right way to go.

dpkg supports a better syntax already, and I'm just waiting for the
policy change to land in order to start using it:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530687

As such I think I'll just extend the list for now and use linux-any once
policy permits it.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]