[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#363193: is dpkg new architecture specifications going to be fixed and documented?

[Guillem Jover]

On Thu, 18 May 2006 03:39:24 -0500, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:46:49PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > I was discussing with Christian Perrier at dinner and he mentioned
> > that the new-style architecture specifications (Build-Depends: XXX
> > [linux-any] etc.) may have been reverted.  I'm not quite sure about
> > that since the documentation and changelogs are quite scarse about
> > dpkg-dev stuff.
> > 
> > Am I okay in going ahead with committing this change to pbuilder ?

Please use instead dpkg-architecture -e or -i options (documented in
the man page), so that we have this code centralized there, and can
extend or fix it in just one place.

You'll have to depend on a new enough version of dpkg (1.13.17) or
conditionally use the feature if that dpkg version is present.

About the bug report, if you find the documentation lacking in
dpkg-architecture's man page I can extend it, otherwise please
close it.

regards,
guillem