On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:04:48PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > It builds only one binary, so the Architecture line is incorrect.
> No it builds on ia64 and amd64 as well. 

| Specifying a list of architectures indicates that the source will
| build an architecture-dependent package, and will only work
| correctly on the listed architectures.[31]

| 31 
| This is a setting used for a minority of cases where the program is not
| portable. Generally, it should not be used for new packages.

>                                         But you are right that I could
> have had listed just the architectures that are officially supported. However
> it is much easier for me to let upstream handle that than to do it myself
> as well. It is detected very early in the build process so it do not take
> that much resources on the build servers and I do not update the package
> that often.

The package will end up in either P-a-s or in not-for-us rather fast and
will be not longer built without manual intervention.

> I have filed the bug to ftp.debian.org now in any case. When it has
> been corrected I'll lower the severity.

Fix the Architecture line and close it. It does not hit the case where
this is not possible.

Bastian

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