David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:07:25AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> >> > If one changes the architecture of a package from "any" to "all" but >> > makes no change to the package name, does this require any special >> > manual intervention, or would an upload that makes such a change go >> > through as quickly as a normal upload would go through? Hypothetical >> > situation: a compiled executable gets replaced with a shell script. >> >> Not so hypothetical: I've done this with netenv, which compiled a small >> executable from C code just because the upstream author didn't know how >> to do bitwise calculations in bash; I replaced the calls to that execu- >> table by >> >> let R1=$((~N1 & 255 | I1)) >> let R2=$((~N2 & 255 | I2)) >> >> and similar, and *woosh* it was Architecture: all. > > Skip the let, and *woosh*, it's even POSIX compliant shell script... =)
I must say I didn't bother about POSIXness, since the upstream version uses lots of bashisms, anyway. And I don't recall why I put the let in there; I guess that's also from the upstream version (there must have been "let R1=`trpnc $N1 $I1`" in it). Thanks for the hint. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
