On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:46:46PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > dh_shlibdeps > dh_gencontrol > dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture alpha does not appear in > package's list (i386) > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 > > This probably corresponds to lxdoom-svga which is only for i386. > So there must be a way of convincing the debhelper tools / dpkg-gencontrol > to not try to process lxdoom-svga on non-i386.
lxdoom creates a couple of binary packages, one of which (the svgalib binary) is useful only on i386. Therefore, I assigned lxdoom-svga Architecture: i386 only, assuming dpkg-gencontrol would work properly with this. Apparently not. How can I get around this problem?