On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > > We can do poor-mans partial arch by just being fairly agressive about > disabling armel for packages that are broken or not suitable. Not very > clever or efficient, but it is easy to do and requires no infra or > tooling changes at all. So long as someone is volunteering for that > (easy but unexciting) work that could work.
If I understand correctly, you mean for those packages broke on armel (or to be broken in the future), we can modify debian/control as following: From: Architecture: any To: Architecture: any [!armel] I'm not sure whether statement above works or not, because debian policy didn't mention this [0][1]. It only mentioned statement like "any" or "linux-any". If we cannot use "any [!armel]", we have to list all the ARCHes without armel, so it's horrible like: Architecture: alpha, amd64, arm64, armhf, hppa, i386, m68k, mips, mips64, mips64el, mipsel, mipsn32, mipsn32el, or1k, powerpc, powerpcspe, ppc64, ppc64el, s390, s390x, sh4, sparc, sparc64, tilegx, x32 And we need to write a few ARCHes that may be supported later [2]: mipsr6 mipsr6el mipsn32r6 mipsn32r6el mips64r6 mips64r6el Is there any way to simplify? [0] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Architecture [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s-arch-spec [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/tree/debian/config/defines Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
