Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2015-02-02):
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:40:38PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > ISTR having proposed a patch to #700026 / #696418, but that wasn't
> > commented upon.
>
> Hello,
>
> I have tried your patch from
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700026#26,
> but unfortunately it does not work correctly in some cases
> involving platform-specific packages. For example running
>
> dpkg-query -f '${source:Package} (= ${source:Version}), ' -W syslinux
>
> on armhf (for which the "syslinux" binary package is not built)
> results in
>
> syslinux (= ),
>
> which is not the intended output for generating the built-using
> list. I currently do not see how to get dpkg-query to explicitly
> check for the availability of a specific binary package on the
> current platform - dpkg-query exits with a returncode of 1 if one
> queries for a completely non-existing package, but returns 0 when
> checking for syslinux on armhf, probably because the syslinux
> source also builds arch:all packages. Any ideas?
Woops, missed that before pushing my patch. Please follow up to #780151.
Mraw,
KiBi.
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