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[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 28.05.2010 um 17:11 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> No dia 28 de Maio de 2010 14:31, Dagobert Michelsen  
>> <dam at opencsw.org> escreveu:
>>> Maciej: It would be nice if checkpkg would stop recommending
>>> making _devel ARCHALL.
>>
>> I considered arguing that the instances where architecture-specific
>> devel packages are necessary, but I understand that the potential  
>> cost
>> of debugging a problem caused by a architecture-specific devel  
>> package
>> might be substantial.  So I've decided to be a complete wuss and
>> comply.  r10030 changes the behavior, and locks it down with unit
>> tests.  I promise not to do that too often.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/10030
>>
>> As a bonus, checkpkg will now insist on architecture-specific devel
>> packages for non-architecture-specific packages.  (A rare case I
>> guess.)
>
> how about you just neither recommend nor require one way or another,
> but just leave it up to the maintainer?

If the maintainer insists he can overwrite the check, but I have not
seen a package where it would be useful to have ARCHALL. But I have
seen many cases where using ARCHALL causes harm.


Best regards

   -- Dago