On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:50:36PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) [100603 14:29]: > > 4. Handling of the architecture line > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Currently we mostly dump the architecture line in favor of > > Packages-arch-specific. We could declare an source-package to be > > mostly non-existant on an architecture it doesn't declare itself to be > > existant. What do you think of such an change? (Or just add an new > > state, "unported"/"unsupported".) - This change could be done any time > > later. I can't parse the second sentence. In the past dpkg-source did not put the right information into the .dsc. This is fixed nowadays. That's what made the mentioned fix possible. > According to the quinn-diff source: > - Consider the Architectures line in the Sources file as authoriative. > If it does not list the current architecture or `any' the package is > not considered for building anymore. (Closes: #275835) > we already only consider packages according to their sources lines > *and* Packages-arch-specific. It should help to minimize P-a-s at some point. And packages depending on such arch-dependent packages will be stopped from building through dep-waits. It will make the architecture look worse than it is in the graph though. (A valid objection Steve had, because that was one of the historic motivators for P-a-s too, as I heared.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
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