On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I've just tried building netcfg on s390, but that fails with: > dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 's390' does not > appear in package's architecture list (i386 sparc alpha m68k arm > armel armeb powerpc mips mipsel hppa ia64 amd64 lpia kfreebsd-i386 > kfreebsd-amd64) > dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol returned exit code 255 > > AFAICT the reason is that the binary netcfg is !s390 (while > netcfg-static is arch any). > > Before the conversion to debhelper v7, we called most dh_command with > the '-s' option. If I add an overrides in d/rules for dh_gencontrol > *and* dh_builddeb to pass the -s option, netcfg builds correctly again.
As there have not yet been any replies, I've committed this solution. I'm still unsure if it's the best solution. > I wonder why this is needed? Shouldn't this "just work"? > > Is there a better solution than adding the overrides? > Maybe 'dh -s $@', but I'd expect that will cause an error where we copy > templates in override_dh_installdebconf... > > I also wonder if other converted packages could have the same issue. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
