On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Robert Millan <[email protected]> wrote: > > The debian/control file in snack uses a negated list of architectures > to specify a package relationship (most likely Build-Depends) on a > Linux-specific package. I.e. something like: > > Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386] > > This is problematic because it will fail for any future kfreebsd-* or hurd-* > architecture (like the upcoming kfreebsd-mipsel port). The correct way > would be to use dpkg architecture wildcards, e.g.: > > Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [linux-any] > > Please consider making this adjustment to make life easier for future > porting efforts.
Well, pbuilder (at least 0.199+nmu1 in squeeze) doesn't understand linux-any when fetching build dependencies, so I'll delay this bugfix. Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
