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[Bert Freudenberg <bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12.10.2011, at 16:02, Amos Blanton wrote:

> On 10/12/2011 03:25 AM, Juha Erkkilä wrote:
>> 
>> According to
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Architecture:
>> 
>>   ... "a list of specific and wildcard architectures separated by spaces" ...
>> 
>> "Architecture: i386 x86_64" might work.
>> 
>> But I was actually a bit too hasty, as I did not check that the package contains
>> its own squeak_vm binary, so it should not be flagged "all" or "x86_64".
>> If it would simply rely on an external squeakvm binary, the scratch package could
>> be made architecture independent.
> 
> Yes - that's our goal as well. And we have a version of the package that does just that. Unfortunately, the 64 bit Squeak vm isn't ready for prime-time yet, so we've been told not to depend on it.
> 
> -Amos

Making Scratch itself be "noarch" is still the Right Thing to do. Only the Squeak VM differs between platforms. There's no good reason to include a VM.

- Bert -