Bug#860637: mkosi: FTBFS on i386: help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./mkosi

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello,

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 04:58:00PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
[...]
> Don't known the i686 architecture.
[...]

Thanks.

While I'm not very familiar with mkosi I guess I should have understood
from the "legacy free" description that i386 "obviously" isn't supported:

if platform.machine() == "x86_64":
    GPT_ROOT_NATIVE = GPT_ROOT_X86_64
elif platform.machine() == "aarch64":
    GPT_ROOT_NATIVE = GPT_ROOT_ARM_64
else:
    sys.stderr.write("Don't known the %s architecture.\n" % platform.machine())
    sys.exit(1)

http://sources.debian.net/src/mkosi/1-1/mkosi/#L52


So apparently this isn't valid (even though the code itself builds no
architecture-specific binaries, it's still not arch-independent):

Architecture: all

http://sources.debian.net/src/mkosi/1-1/debian/control/#L18


Regards,
Andreas Henriksson