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[rupert THURNER]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 17:13, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

do you have an example?

rupert.