[pkg-fso-maint] Slowly uploading to main: independent packages

[Luca Capello]

Hi Joachim!

On Mon, 18 May 2009 10:29:35 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 18.05.2009, 00:04 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
>> And then I forgot that there was another question (I promise, the last
>> one!): should we build it only for armel?  AFAIK it is used no where
>> else but the FR, thus I do not see the point in providing binary
>> packages for other architecture.  However, it compiles perfectly on
>> amd64 ;-)
>
> it would be nice to upload on amd64 if one doesn’t have an armel machine
> or binary around, otherwise I’d say arm-only. So it should either be
> "Arch: armel" or "Arch: i386 amd64 armel".

I thought the same later on last night: since it compiles perfectly on
an i386 sid chroot as well, I did exactly as you proposed:

  http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/xf86-video-glamo.git;a=commitdiff;h=993fcc586722383139a6d24e635f84ca2ccb78fa

> What happens when you upload an amd64 build of a package with "Arch:
> armel"? Will it even build? Will probably be rejected by dak.

I thought pdebuild would have whined if the architecture on which you
are building the package is not listed in debian/control, but it seems
it does not until dpkg-gencontol does:
=====
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/xf86-video-glamo-0.0.0+20090224.git703acea1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu'
touch build-stamp
 fakeroot debian/rules binary
[...]
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps -- --warnings=6
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear in package's architecture list (armel)
dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol returned exit code 255
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
E: Failed autobuilding of package
=====

Thus, I do not even think you can build an amd64 package with
"Architecture: armel" ;-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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