Bug#1085236: dpkg: could Architecture field support excluding architectures?

[Paul Gevers]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.22.11
Severity: wishlist

Hi,




Architecture: !s390x




Paul

I'm not sure if this idea came up before, but as far as I can see there is no bug open about it and last time I checked dpkg didn't support the following idea. In autopkgtest [1], I added support in the testing control file to explicitly mention unsupported architectures. This means that instead of listing all supported architectures, one can say something like: which means the same as '`any` but not on s390x', just like in (Build-)Depends. Maybe you consider this a stupid idea, but from where I stand this looks like a nice feature. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst

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