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Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Support for architecture wildcards has been added to dpkg-1.13.13, yet there's no clear policy as to how architecture wildcards should be used for other tools such as sbuild and pbuilder. There has been recent discussions abou

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

I support this proposal, as written. Clearly this should have been in policy some time ago. Cheers, Andrew. On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:50 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.8.1.0 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Support f

Architecture in *.dsc files

Currently, Policy's description of Architecture includes the statement: In the main debian/control file in the source package, or in the source package control file .dsc, one may specify a list of architectures separated by spaces, or the special values any or all. By my reading, this

Re: Architecture in *.dsc files

Hi: This is probably a stupid question, but... On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Currently, Policy's description of Architecture includes the statement: > >    In the main debian/control file in the source package, or in the >    source package control file .dsc, one may sp

Re: Architecture in *.dsc files

Jonathan Yu writes: > This is probably a stupid question, but... > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Currently, Policy's description of Architecture includes the statement: >> >>In the main debian/control file in the source package, or in the >>source package con