Bug#732973: liblo: update Architecture field

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Felipe Sateler (2013-12-23 15:11:17)
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> wrote:
>> Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> writes:
>>> I have just uploaded a version (0.26~repack-8) that purposely fails 
>>> on sparc and sparc64, so that it doesn't build again.
>>
>> If a package should not be built on an architecture, then there is an 
>> Architecture field to indicate this. Please use this instead of 
>> failing the build (note that you can use "!sparc !sparc64" or 
>> something like that).
>
> I was under the impression that this is not true. The ! can be used in 
> the (Build-)Depends field, but not on the Architecture one.

Depending on the reason for avoiding some specific arch, you may find 
useful my pkgarchs.sh script in uwsgi packaging, and how it is used in 
control.in and rules file.


 - Jonas

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