On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:14:19PM -0800, Ron wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:21:55AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Declaring "Architecture: i386" because you haven't guaranteed yourself > > that it will build is wrong, and Debian porters have been fighting > > against this for years. > > Please note this isn't a general policy of mine, but right or wrong it > did seem appropriate at least initially for this package in particular.
Right, cool :-) Thanks for the explanation; all looks good ... > ps. While we're nagging -policy, does anyone have an opinion on > uploading library packages built with this compiler? wxWindows, > of which I'm on the upstream team and the debian maintainer, is > perfectly capable of building msw-cross .debs. Using it, you can > write C++ apps which will compile on all our supported arch's. > wx however has two supported arch's that Debian does not. I don't see anything wrong with this. We support people on Windows in all kinds of little ways - take samba and wine, for instance - and as long as there's nothing non-free in the package itself then it seems a very useful thing to provide. IMHO, at least. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
