Devuan bug report logs - #625
amprolla generates InRelease without arch:all

Package: amprolla; Maintainer for amprolla is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>;

Reported by: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version chimaera

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:52:30 +0100
From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: 625@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#625: amprolla generates InRelease without arch:all
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Boian and Ralph,

Thanks. I think I understand this now. Documenting it here, so we have it as a
reference.

Previously arch:all packages were included in arch specific index files (both
Packages and Contents). Obviously that is a duplication and from the Bullseye
cycle Debian has moved to reduce that duplication.  This requires clients to use
arch:all indicies directly, for which 'all' has to be included in the Release
Architectures (as Boian pointed out).

However, so this can be done in stages, the 'No-Support-for-Architecture-all:
Packages'[1] header was introduced which temporarily excludes Packages indicies
from the migration.

The inclusion of 'all' in Architectures is controlled in DAK by the per-suite
separate_{package,contents}_architecture_all options.

If we set

 separate_package_architecture_all=no
 separate_contents_architecture_all=yes

in DAK, we get 'all' added to Release Architectures and also
'No-Support-for-Architecture-all: Packages'. WHen merging, amprolla can then
test for 'all' in Devuan's DAK Release file and propagate that and the
No-Support-for-Architecture-all header to the merged Release file.

I prefer this approach as it keeps the configuration of this in a single place
(DAK) and doesn't change the behaviour for older releases (beowulf and earlier)
that still have dupicated arch:all.

Patch to be tested attached. I will change the config of ceres so it can
be tested.

Any comments/problems anybody can see?

Thanks

Mark

[1]  https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#No-Support-for-Architecture-all

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Devuan bug report logs - #625 amprolla generates InRelease without arch:all

Devuan bug report logs - #625
amprolla generates InRelease without arch:all