On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 06:27:55PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Quoting Colin Watson (2016-11-12 18:09:22) > > > * it supports only a single build-indep architecture rather than a list > > > > Not so; you have misread the code. It is a list of architectures that > > architecture-independent binary packages can be on. > > > > > I propose the new field to be a list per the usual architecture syntax. > > > > Fortunately, since it already is, there is no need for a new field. > > so, the field also supports architecture wildcards? So I can say: > > Build-Indep-Architecture: any > > or: > > Build-Indep-Architecture: linux-any
Yes. > And in an utopic feature, maybe even: > > Build-Indep-Architecture: any-gnu-any-any > > (to build on any glibc based architecture) We'd need to have a dpkg-architecture that supports quadruplets on the server side, and I'm not sure we currently do, but in principle yes. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
