Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson writes: > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> On the other hand limiting the architectures in debian/control has no >> effect at all for buildds (or wanna-build). The relevant file would >> be the Packages-Arch-Specific file. > > I've heard this for years. Why do we have an Architecture: f

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:46:22 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Goswin von Brederlow] > > On the other hand limiting the architectures in debian/control has no > > effect at all for buildds (or wanna-build). The relevant file would > > be the Packages-Arch-Specific file. > > I've heard this

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Goswin von Brederlow] > On the other hand limiting the architectures in debian/control has no > effect at all for buildds (or wanna-build). The relevant file would > be the Packages-Arch-Specific file. I've heard this for years. Why do we have an Architecture: field at all, instead of just Arch

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Harald Jenny, le Sun 11 Jul 2010 21:01:47 +0200, a écrit : > > This doesn't sound like fixing it is rocket science. > > Hmmm at least this one not but I don't know what other problem may lurk in the > dark as I don't have a HURD system to test ;-). You now have one: ssh harald-jenny-gu...

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-11 Thread Harald Jenny
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 09:51:38AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > Hello, > > > > Harald Jenny, le Fri 09 Jul 2010 23:41:45 +0200, a écrit : > >> I'm maintaining the amavisd-milter package and have a question: Due to the > >> unavailability of libmilter-dev on H

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Harald Jenny, le Fri 09 Jul 2010 23:41:45 +0200, a écrit : >> I'm maintaining the amavisd-milter package and have a question: Due to the >> unavailability of libmilter-dev on HURD (it uses PATH_MAX which is not >> defined >> there) my package can't be built f

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Harald Jenny, le Fri 09 Jul 2010 23:41:45 +0200, a écrit : > I'm maintaining the amavisd-milter package and have a question: Due to the > unavailability of libmilter-dev on HURD (it uses PATH_MAX which is not defined > there) my package can't be built for this OS. Then it's fine: amavisd-m