[Slackbuilds-users] should I remove my submissions from the pending queue + noarch if pure perl?

Didier Spaier didier.spaier at epsm.fr
Fri Oct 25 20:10:37 UTC 2013


On 25/10/2013 17:53, Robby Workman wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:23:27 -0500
> "Patrick J. Volkerding" <volkerdi at slackware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/2013 05:05 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
>>> Also, IIRC, only perl-Unicode-LineBreak needs cc to be built, the
>>> two other are "pure perl".
>>>
>>> Should I set ARCH to "noarch" for the these?
>>
>> The usual policy for packages in Slackware (not sure if there is
>> anything similar for SBO, but if not this might be worth thinking
>> about) is that if the package would have any lib64 directories on
>> x86_64, then it should not get "noarch" simply because it would not
>> be generic across all architectures.
>
>
> That is generally how we have handled it as well.

OK, I'll apply this policy. Thanks to both of you.



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