[debhelper-devel] Bug#858467: Please expand on error message "No packages to build." when architectures do not match

[Michael Stapelberg]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:01:54 +0100 Michael Stapelberg
> <stapelberg at debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: debhelper
> > Version: 10.2.5
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Currently, when trying to build a Debian package whose binary packages
> > specify “€œArchitecture: arm64“€  on an amd64 machine, I get the
> following
> > error message:
> >
> > raspi3-firmware $ dh clean
> > dh: No packages to build.
> >
> > While this is technically correct, the error message could be way
> > friendlier: I’€™d suggest something along the lines of “No packages to
> > build (architecture mismatch: got amd64, want arm64)“€