[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#634514: sysvinit: debian/control uses hardcoded list of non-Linux architectures

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:12:06PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> The debian/control file in sysvinit uses a negated list of architectures
> to specify a package relationship (most likely Build-Depends) on a
> Linux-specific package.  I.e. something like:
> 
>  Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386]
> 
> This is problematic because it will fail for any future kfreebsd-* or hurd-*
> architecture (like the upcoming kfreebsd-mipsel port).  The correct way
> would be to use dpkg architecture wildcards, e.g.:
> 
>  Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [linux-any]
> 
> Please consider making this adjustment to make life easier for future
> porting efforts.

A patch for this is here:
git://git.debian.org/git/users/rleigh/sysvinit
Commit 9b0cf5f5 on the 2.88dsf-13.12 branch.  I would have pasted a
gitweb link only it currently appears broken.


Regards,
Roger

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