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

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:19:09PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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.

> This is exactly how I would want it to work.  The only difference 
> between now and later is that the architecture string will not be 
> expanded in the source packages anymore, but the effect of writing 
> [linux-any] for the purpose of controlling the build dependencies will 
> remain the same, unless I misunderstood the feature completely.

Er... "So this may mean that putting "linux-any" in debian/control will stop
working as you want it to in the meantime."  This feature is not mature and
is subject to change before it finally stabilizes, which is why I don't
think it ought to be adopted yet in the samba packages.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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