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Re: please register as arch-specific



On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:09:54PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Marco d'Itri, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 18:59:12 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Jan 23, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Err, this is really not linux-only, there even used to be a freebsd
> > > port, but apparently it didn't keep up to date.
> > "used to be" is the key here, it was bitrotten years ago when I started
> > maintaining ppp and has been removed from the tree a couple of years
> > ago.
> That still doesn't make ppp a linux-specific package. If some people
> want to port it to another kernel, they'll have to request changing
> the "Architecture:" again, while AIUI, leaving it as "any" for now
> doesn't bring bad effect except the red word "failed" written on
> buildd.debian.org only.

Well, for the current codebase linux-any would be correct.  So the only
question is if this removed it from the radar of porters.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern 

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