Bug#540794: Arch detection for dh

2009-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:11:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > When reading the documentation page, the '-a' option clearly states 'Act > > on all architecture dependent packages', and therefore this does seem to > > be consistent with the documentation. However, I believe

Bug#540794: Arch detection for dh

2009-08-10 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > I don't think there's any particular reason for dh to have its current > behavior -- it can run dpkg-architecture just once when figuring out > which packages to act on. The change there looks to be this simple, though > I need to test it: Looking at it in a bit more detail, dh

Bug#540794: Arch detection for dh

2009-08-10 Thread Joey Hess
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > When reading the documentation page, the '-a' option clearly states 'Act > on all architecture dependent packages', and therefore this does seem to > be consistent with the documentation. However, I believe redefining it > to say 'all architecture dependent packages relevan

Bug#540794: Arch detection for dh

2009-08-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: debhelper Version: 7.3.12 Severity: wishlist Hi, I was just converting the nbd packages to use dh rather than debhelper. As I was doing that, it occurred to me that there are a few constructs in the debian/rules file that really shouldn't be necessary. Since approximately forever, I've