[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#563372: Bug#563372: Bug#563372: samba: Please add support for sparc64

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:11:04PM -0400, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 08:24:16PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:08:05PM -0400, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:19:08PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:24:34AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> 
> > > > Policy 2.9.1 allows using architecture wildcards. This is probably the
> > > > way to go, and it will prevent changes to be done for each new linux
> > > > architecture. Please find a patch doing that below.
> 
> > > Do you know offhand the minimum versions of dpkg and sbuild that implement
> > > this?  I'm happy if we can finally make this change, but we don't want to
> > > break compatibility with lenny backport builds.
> 
> > I don't know the minimum version of dpkg, but it is supported in lenny
> > already. For sbuild, it is something more recent and mostly depends on
> > the fork of sbuild you are using.
> 
> Ok - do you know whether backports.org is compatible?
> 
> (Also, do you happen to know if Launchpad is compatible?  It's not a blocker
> for making this change in Debian if not, but I would like to know in advance
> that we'll need to revert this patch.)
>