[Pkg-samba-maint] dpkg now supports wildcard architectures

[Peter Eisentraut]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a feature that's ready for people to depend
> on. I've had some conversations with Guillem Jover about how this
> wildcarding ought to work -- the goal is that software which works
> with .dsc files will be enhanced to understand these wildcards, so
> that they can be copied verbatim to the .dsc output and therefore
> source packages don't have to be rebuilt when new archs are added to
> the "linux-any" set.  So this may mean that putting "linux-any" in
> debian/control will stop working as you want it to in the meantime.

This is exactly how I would want it to work.  The only difference 
between now and later is that the architecture string will not be 
expanded in the source packages anymore, but the effect of writing 
[linux-any] for the purpose of controlling the build dependencies will 
remain the same, unless I misunderstood the feature completely.