Re: packages expected to fail on some archs
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 12:23:57AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> If we limit the problem to avoiding build failures in cases that
> upstream does not support, there would be the trivial solution of
> having a package ship Provides like:
> - architecture-is-64bit
> - architecture-is-32bit
> - architecture-is-little-endian
> - architecture-is-big-endian
> - architecture-has-64bit-timet
> Build-Depends: architecture-is-64bit, architecture-is-little-endian,...
> would be a package that only supports 64bit little endian architectures,
> and that would never be attempted to build on 32bit or big endian
> architectures.
>
> The buildd page would then show for i386:
> mypackage build-depends on missing:
> - architecture-is-64bit
Alas, this scheme won't work for cross-building or multi-arch :(
Meow!
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