[ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 11.05.2016 um 00:11 schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz:
> Package Maintainers,
>
> cygport 0.22.0 is on its way to the mirrors.  With this release, and
> thanks to Jon Turney's continuing work on calm (the replacement for
> upset which generates setup.ini), packages marked ARCH=noarch will be
> uploaded once under the /noarch/release hierarchy instead of into each
> of /x86/release and /x86_64/release.  This change is intended to save
> disk space and bandwidth for both sourceware and our mirrors.
>
> A package should be marked ARCH=noarch IF AND ONLY IF *all*
> subpackages thereof do not contain anything compiled with the *native*
> gcc, and the file contents are (or can be) 100% identical for x86 and
> x86_64. Examples include, but are not limited to, packages which
> contain only:
>
> * documentation;
> * scripts;
> * fonts;
> * icon themes;
> * other runtime data;
> * C/C++ headers without a library;
> * libraries for cross-compiler toolchains.
> * pure Lua/Perl/Python/Ruby/Tcl modules without C/C++ bindings.
I wonder why this list or this action does not include all the source
packages, which might even save more disk space than all the others
together.
Thomas

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