[Pkg-samba-maint] dpkg now supports wildcard architectures

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:03:02AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> dpkg now supports wildcard architectures, so we can write

> libacl1-dev (>= 2.2.11-1) [linux-any]

> and get rid of the type-handling handling.  I gave this a try and it 
> works well.  Any opposition to using that?

I'm not sure if this is a feature that's ready for people to depend on.
I've had some conversations with Guillem Jover about how this wildcarding
ought to work -- the goal is that software which works with .dsc files will
be enhanced to understand these wildcards, so that they can be copied
verbatim to the .dsc output and therefore source packages don't have to be
rebuilt when new archs are added to the "linux-any" set.  So this may mean
that putting "linux-any" in debian/control will stop working as you want it
to in the meantime.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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