Re: package-arch-specific missing on security-master?

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:26:11AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 06:47:38PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:08:41PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > > On 12747 March 1977, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > if I recall correctly, there used to be a file which listed packages
> > > > which are architecture-specific despite being nominally
> > > > Architecture: any.  This file seems to be missing on security-master;
> > > > packages like openjdk-6 and xen-qemu-dm-4.0 which are buildable on
> > > > select architectures only are attempted on all architectures, over
> > > > and over again.
> > > 
> > > > I'm looking for a way to improve this situation.  Any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Yeah, talk to the wanna-build admins, PaS is no longer the way to go
> > > there. And the buildd stuff is up to them, not ftpmaster. :)
> > 
> > CCing wanna-build admins for comments.
> 
> Packages-arch-specific still exists, but we would like to avoid
> using it as much as possible.  It lives on buildd.debian.org, not
> on ftp-master or security-master.  If you want us to prevent
> building a package on a certain arch, please tell us.

Please prevent xen-qemu-dm-4.0/4.0.1-2+squeeze1 from being build on any arch 
other than amd64 and i386.

Cheers,
        Moritz