On 03/28/2018 07:26 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Back when I was maintaining OpenAFS, I frequently wanted some way as a > maintainer to easily tag a package as "this will never for the forseeable > future be supported on this architecture" and move on. We don't have a > great mechanism for doing this right now -- there's a thing on the buildds > that's pretty opaque and that I don't know how to set as a maintainer, and > one can list a bunch of specific architectures on the package but that's > really awkward and interacts poorly with arch: all packages.
The recommended way today is to annotate within the package. It does not actually interact poorly with arch:all packages. When dpkg builds the source package and there's no arch:any package it will list all architectures explicitly in the .dsc and if there's an arch:all package all will be added in addition. Kind regards Philipp Kern
