[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#397058: Bug#397058: Bug#397058: Is this really needed?

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva]

Hallo Joachim.

Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Sáb Fev 27 13:04:45 -0300 2010:
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> Am Freitag, den 26.02.2010, 23:24 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e
> Silva:
> > Do you thing it worths to try a build on all architectures that doesn't have
> > GHCi, knowing that they will fail, for all new versions of these packages, just
> > to make sure that, when ghci works on them, they'll build too?  I don't think
> > it's a good exchange here.
> 
> but it’s not what the Architecture field is for, AFAIK. The correct
> thing to do is to have the non-working package/arch combination entered
> in the not-for-us database of the buildd system, so that the package
> will not be tried for building. But this is, also AFAIK, the job of the
> porters.

Besides it, do you think we should use any or the architecture list in the
Architecture: field?  If the architectures are in not-for-us, the build will
not be tried anyway, so I don't see a reason to change it to any.

Auf Wiedersehen.
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