Re: proposal [Forky i386] : linux-image-pentium4

Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-08-14 Dominique Belhachemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:24:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

> > I would appreciate if there would be easier way to turn off (and on)
> > i386 or any future new partial relesease without having to update
> > control fields and reupload a package and its whole dependency chain.

> Hi Charles,

> I use the following in packages that don't work well with i386 etc.

> In debian/control:
> Build-Depends:
>   architecture-is-64-bit,
>   architecture-is-little-endian,

> In debian/salsa-ci.yml:
> variables:
>   SALSA_CI_DISABLE_BUILD_PACKAGE_I386: 1

Hello,

we are missing something like this that works at a binary package level
instead of per source package. One needs to use a explicit supported
arch list in that case. (See e.g. the pinentry Ubuntu debdiff.)

cu Andreas
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