On 2014-05-24 04:16, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > >>> In my code I counted all debian architectures as "valid" which are >>> listed on packages.debian.net. Is there a better way to retrieve >>> "valid" architectures in this context? > >> Dpkg::Arch::get_valid_arches, which looks at /usr/share/dpkg/*table > > I'm pretty sure that Lintian already uses that data to check whether > architectures are valid (I vaguely remember working on that code), but it > may well be that the existing check doesn't get the wildcards right. >
Hi, Honestly, I am pretty sure the validator gets wildcards right. I remember re-implementing that part of the Lintian code and ran into the exact problem[1]. I am more inclined to believe that the problem is that there is /no/ validation of the "Architecture" field in d/control of the source package. At least a quick scan of checks/control-file.pm suggests this to be the case. ~Niels [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=blob;f=lib/Lintian/Architecture.pm;h=f03701c812dea4f9ac9a803c8697313211eb642b;hb=e3015d2327847d729183a196e0b8db9743134ea5#l103 """ # NB: "$os-$cpu" ne $archstr in some cases """ Which happens in cases like "armhf", which is a part of "any-arm / linux-any". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53803f6c.6070...@thykier.net
