Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > This is what I eventually chose for iotop. At the time I wanted dpkg > and dak to support something like Architecture: linux-all, which would > build arch: all packages, but only put them in the Packages files for > the Linux architectures. > > I am now thinking that a more generic solution than Architecture: > linux-all is needed, in order to cover your case as well. Perhaps > something like Available-Architecures or Runtime-Architectures or > Architecture-all-Architectures: or similar.
I am still wondering why we don't have just empty some pseudo-packages that are available only on specific architectures (or groups of them, like linux, or little endian, or 64 bit or so). If a package works (or builds) only on a specific arch (or an arch with specific properties), it can be set dependent (or built-dependent) on that. This would be a quite flexible and extendible approach to have packages installable only where they work. Best regards Ole
