New tracker bugs for the use of ExcludeArchs in packages
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun Jan 29 12:51:50 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 13:29 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 13:32 +0100 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > What if the ExclusiveArch is not a bug but a feature, for example say a
> > userspace support tools for certain hardware only found on certain
> > archs? Then there is no problem to fix, should one then still file bugs?
>
> In the past I would have said "no" but a lot of other packagers
> disagreed and convinced me -- so the answer is a "yes" from me now.
Please explain, I fail to understand the rationale.
> Other people simply might not know that the package is "for certain
> hardware only found on certain archs".
It already is: Inside of the spec. All you do is adding administration
overhead.
Ralf
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