Hi, and thank you everybody for your replies! :)
Quoting Niels Thykier (2014-05-24 08:42:52) > 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. I tested this with src:picolisp (= 3.1.6.1) which has "any-armhf" in the Architecture field of the picolisp binary package it builds and lintian does not issue a warning about it. I'll post a bugreport about this to lintian. Thanks! cheers, josch -- 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/20140524082545.20924.48922@hoothoot
