Package: edos-distcheck Version: 1.4.2-11 Severity: important Dear edos-distcheck maintainers,
edos-debcheck is used by the Debian wanna-build database, used by the build dæmons to check which packages need rebuilding. However, it appears that edos-debcheck can't yet cope with architecture wildcards which are now permitted in package dependencies and build-dependencies and are supported by dpkg, sbuild and associated tools. [I didn't see any use of dpkg-architecture in the sources.] Please could you consider adding support for architecture wildcards with dpkg-architecture? edos-debcheck support is the last remaining tool needing support, which is blocking use of wildcards in Debian. References: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wb-team/2010/07/msg00007.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501230 Support is very simple. When you get an architecture in square brackets in a dependency such as grub [i386] libfreeimage-dev [!linux-any] libpng12-dev [any-i386] you call dpkg-architecture to query if the wildcard matches the host architecture. You need to handle the '!' (not) case yourself. If the host architecture and dependency architecture are a straight match, you can skip calling dpkg-architecture if you want a small optimisation, or else you just ask dpkg-architecture: Is [linux-any] needed on an amd64 arch? % dpkg-architecture -aamd64 -ilinux-any % echo $? 0 (yes, it matches) Is [linux-any] needed on a hurd-i386 arch? % dpkg-architecture -ahurd-i386 -ilinux-any % echo $? 1 (no, it doesn't match) Is [any-i386] needed on a hurd-i386 arch? % dpkg-architecture -ahurd-i386 '-iany-i386' % echo $? 0 (yes, it matches) I'm sure you get the idea! The list thread link above has the patch written for wanna-build in it which might be useful as an example of how it could be done. Many thanks, Roger Leigh -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
