On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:42:53 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> wrote:
> Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:25:26 -0700 > > Afif Elghraoui <a...@ghraoui.name> wrote: > >> The package in question, circlator, depends on two > >> architecture-dependent packages that can only build on amd64 and > >> kfreebsd-amd64 currently. The package cannot migrate to testing > >> because those dependencies are not available for i386 [1]. > >> > >> I am hoping there is a better solution to this problem than to work > >> around this by changing this package's build architecture from > >> "all" to "any-amd64" > > > > That's not a workaround, it is the correct fix for the error in the > > original upload. The package cannot work on all architectures - the > > fact that this is because of dependencies rather than the code > > within the package is irrelevant. Unless the code in the package can > > *transparently* omit the need for the dependency on architectures > > where that dependency does not exist, then the package is not > > arch:all. Installation alone is insufficient, the package needs to > > be usable on all the architectures in the Architecture list. > > No. It is arch:all if it contains no arch-specific binaries and > doesn't require arch-specific dependencies (i.e. dependencies which > should only appear on specific architectures like "foo [amd64]"). True - I got mixed up with that bit. Sorry for the confusion. > It should be fine if an arch:all package depends on binary packages > that are not installable on all architectures. Otherwise a lot of > arch:all packages that depend on, say, linux-specific binary packages > would become arch:any which is not very useful. > > As far as I remember, the testing migration script checks > installability of arch:all packages on amd64 and i386, and there are > manual workarounds for arch:all packages that are not installable on > these architectures. Cc'ed the release team to take a look too. > > Ansgar > -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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