[arch-general] Independent arch field in sub packages? (Was: Re: [commitpkg] Some stylistic cleanup)

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> I pushed all of your patches. The last one didn't apply cleanly, so I
>> had to do some tweaking. It was most likely related to me removing
>> trailing whitespace from the svn spacing commit.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>
> Thanks for applying the patches to devtools.
>
> I have a question. Currently, sub packages can't have a different
> architecture field than the main package. Are there plans to add this
> possibility in the future? This could come in handy with packages that have
> huge data files that are architecture independent and can be split into a
> sub package with arch=('any').
>
> I'm mainly asking because if the above gets implemented, commitpkg will need
> to be slightly modified in order to be able to locate -any sub packages (and
> I have a feeling that it was able to do this before my patches were applied
> :d ).
>

There's already a feature request in flyspray:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15955