On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
> #  SELECT package, version, architecture, description from packages
>      where package = 'openjdk-6-jre' and version = '6b11-9.1'
>      and distribution = 'debian' and release = 'lenny' and component = 'main';
>    package    | version  | architecture |               description
> ---------------+----------+--------------+------------------------------------------
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | alpha        | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot Zero
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | amd64        | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot JIT
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | armel        | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot Zero
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | i386         | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot JIT
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | ia64         | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot Zero
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | mips         | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot Zero
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | mipsel       | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot Zero
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | powerpc      | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot Zero
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | s390         | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot Zero
>  openjdk-6-jre | 6b11-9.1 | sparc        | OpenJDK Java runtime, using 
> Hotspot JIT
> (10 rows)
>
> I really wonder how we might get different descriptions if the packages
> are supposed to come from the same source package.
>
> Any reasonable explanation for this?

The package is built with a different VM on different architectures, so
the rules file[0] changes the control file[1] to reflect that.

[0] - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openjdk/openjdk/openjdk6/annotate/head:/rules
[1] - 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openjdk/openjdk/openjdk6/annotate/head:/control

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>


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