On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:01:54 +0100 Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> wrote: > 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? > > [...]
I am fine with getting patches for the better error messages. Please keep in mind that the "want" part includes architecture wildcards, which debhelper doesn't deal with directly so far. Thanks, ~Niels
