Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: wishlist I again may be missing something, but I don't believe there's anywhere in Policy that says the obvious things about architecture-independent packages versus architecture-dependent packages. I'm thinking of the basic definitional things like:
Architecture-independent packages are packages that will function on any architecture supported by Debian. They generally should not contain any compiled binaries, since these would be specific to a particular architecture. Programs that must be compiled for each architecture must be distributed in separate architecture-dependent packages for each architecture, not as one architecture-independent package containing all the binaries. I know this is obvious stuff, but right now there's no Policy paragraph for Lintian checks like arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object to reference. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
