Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

[devzero2000]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/15/2009 07:19 AM, Florian Festi wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about proposing a Guideline that says
> "header files should not be placed in noarch packages. Header files can
> contain architecture specific bits.  We currently do not have an
> automated method for detecting whether header files are different on
> different arches. When architecture specific information is encoded in
> header files and the wrong architecture headers are installed, subtle
> bugs can be introduced.  These bugs can be made worse because the
> problems can occur and disappear unpredictably, based on which
> architecture the noarch package was built on."
>

Some specific example could be clarify the issue, because it is istintive to
put noarch
the header package.
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