From 79c24b70e608953066a5611c611fadd3c1e3182d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Allbery
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:11:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Treat any as just another architecture wildcard
Now that we describe architecture wildcards, any is just another
wildcard. This mostly reverts to the state of Manoj's previous
wording proposal but also updates the list of possible values at
the start of the Architecture section.
---
policy.sgml | 36 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index e2236be..88ce825 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2727,27 +2727,29 @@ Package: libc6
Architecture field can include the following sets of
values:
- - A unique single word identifying a Debian machine
- architecture as described in
[.
- ]
- -
- An architecture wildcard identifying a set of Debian
- machine architectures, see
[.
- ]
- - all, which indicates an
- architecture-independent package.
-
- any, which indicates a package available
- for building on any architecture.
-
- source, which indicates a source package.
+
-
+ A unique single word identifying a Debian machine
+ architecture as described in
[.
+ ]
+ -
+ An architecture wildcard identifying a set of Debian
+ machine architectures, see
[.
+ ]
+ -
+ all, which indicates an
+ architecture-independent package.
+
+ -
+ source, which indicates a source package.
+
In the main debian/control file in the source
- package, this field may contain the special value
- any, the special value all, or a list of
- specific and wildcard architectures separated by spaces. If
- any or all appear, that value must be the
+ package, this field may contain special value all or
+ a list of specific and wildcard architectures separated by
+ spaces. If all appears, that value must be the
entire contents of the field. Most packages will use
either any or all. Specifying a specific
list of architectures is for the minority of cases where a
@@ -2794,7 +2796,7 @@ Package: libc6
package, all will also be included in the list.
-
+
Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
the union of the lists of architectures from the expansion
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