Hi! On Sat, 2015-08-29 at 15:42:30 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > package: dpkg-dev > version: 1.18.2 > severity: wishlist
> It's often desirable to exclude a specific architecture for a binary > package, but the Architecture field currently requires the opposite. > > It would be nice if it were possible to do something like: > > Architecture: any [!armhf] This is currently "allowed" by dpkg-dev in the dependency syntax, but mostly as a side effect of how the architecture restriction are parsed. You could write "!armhf any", where the first match wins. But this is currently disallowed by policy. Allowing the same for the Architecture field, would be a possibility, but both behaviors would have to be agreed by the project, at least by maintainers having to deal with parsing such restrictions, implemented and documented at least in dpkg itself. And ideally subsequently policy updated to match reality. Thanks, Guillem
