On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:30:57 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 06:51:58 Julien Cristau wrote: > > This makes it sound like you can't mix architecture names and > > architecture wildcards. Is that on purpose? > > Current policy has this wording and I didn't want to change that, so > yes, it's on purpose.
Not quite. Current policy says "arch list or 'any' or 'all'" and that's fine (at least for debian/control), because it wouldn't make sense for a binary package's Architecture field to be 'any' or 'all' *plus* an explicit list of architectures. (yes, .dsc might need different rules, but.) > My assumption is that however wrote this part of policy meant 'or' to be > inclusive, not exclusive. > Please reconsider your assumption :) Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
