Hello, On Thu, Jun 14 2018, Jess Hall wrote:
> How about "You should not specify that the packages are buildable on > only one architecture."? This is better than what I wrote, thanks, Jess. Here is the updated and rebased patch for seconding: > policy/ch-controlfields.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > index df95d1d..73331f3 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > @@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ package) are: > > - :ref:`Build-Depends et al <s-sourcebinarydeps>` > > +- :ref:`Build-Indep-Architecture <s-f-Build-Indep-Architecture>` > + > - :ref:`Standards-Version <s-f-Standards-Version>` (recommended) > > - :ref:`Homepage <s-f-Homepage>` > @@ -1036,6 +1038,31 @@ This field is automatically added to Debian source > control files > field may also be used in source package control files > (``debian/control``) if needed in other situations. > > +.. _s-f-Build-Indep-Architecture: > + > +``Build-Indep-Architecture`` > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > + > +Specification of architectures on which the architecture-independent > +binary packages are known to be buildable and/or not buildable. If > +this field is not specified, it defaults to ``any``, matching all > +Debian machine architectures. If specified, it should be either > + > +- A unique single word identifying a Debian machine architecture as > + described in :ref:`s-arch-spec`. > + > +- An architecture wildcard identifying a set of Debian machine > + architectures, see :ref:`s-arch-wildcard-spec`. > + > +This header is useful in the rare case where architecture-independent > +packages cannot be built on all architectures for reasons outside the > +maintainer's control. > + > +Although the syntax of the field permits it, you should avoid > +specifying that the package can be built on only a single > +architecture. This provides flexibility to the administrators of > +autobuilder infrastructure. > + > .. _s5.7: -- Sean Whitton
