[Python-apps-team] Bug#583063: pkpgcounter: FTBFS: dpkg-gencontrol: error: the Recommends field contains an arch-specific dependency but the package is architecture all

[Christian Kastner]

tag 583063 +patch
thanks

On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> amd64.
> 

*snip*

>> WARN: If you are running on a 32 Bits x86 platform, you should install the Python Psyco module if possible, this would greatly speedup parsing. NB : Psyco doesn't work on other platforms, so don't worry if you're in this case.

*snip*

>> dh_gencontrol
>> dpkg-gencontrol: error: the Recommends field contains an arch-specific dependency but the package is architecture all
>> dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog -Tdebian/pkpgcounter.substvars -Pdebian/pkpgcounter returned exit code 255
>> make: *** [binary-indep] Error 9

Limiting architectures in Recommends: doesn't make sense, therefore
dpkg-gencontrol fails.

With the attached patch, this builds fine on amd64.


Regards,
Christian
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