Package: debian-policy Version: 4.4.1.2 Severity: normal Hello,
I didn't find a previous discussion on this: it would be useful to support negated architecture specifications in the debian/control Architecture field, so that we can e.g. write: Architecture: !s390 !s390x (for xorg stuff) Architecture: !hppa !hurd-any !kfreebsd-any (for java stuff) and even things like Architecture: linux-any kfreebsd-any !hppa !m68k-any which would be understood as [ (linux-any or kfreebsd-any) and not hppa and not m68k-any ]. I.e. if no positive specification is set, an "any" positive specification is assumed. That would help to remove quite a few entries of https://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/experimental/Packages-arch-specific and avoid packages with some java bits to have to hardcode the list of ports on which java jni bindings packages should be built. I guess support would be needed in dpkg, lintian, etc. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled debian-policy depends on no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy recommends: ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.8.5-5 Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> -- no debconf information -- Samuel <i> ben oui ce serait idiot, mais osb -+- m'en fous de faire un truc débile ! -+-
