Package: debhelper Version: 10.2.5 Severity: normal Currently, when trying to build a Debian package whose binary packages specify “Architecture: arm64” on an amd64 machine, I get the following error message:
raspi3-firmware $ dh clean dh: No packages to build. While this is technically correct, the error message could be way friendlier: I’d suggest something along the lines of “No packages to build (architecture mismatch: got amd64, want arm64)”. What do you think? -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20161112.1 ii binutils 2.27.90.20170124-2 ii dh-autoreconf 13 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.031-1 ii dpkg 1.18.22 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.22 ii file 1:5.29-3 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.22 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii perl 5.24.1-1 ii po-debconf 1.0.20 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 2.201608 -- no debconf information
