[Mageia-dev] noarch packages containing binaries should be rejected

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 02.04.2012 10:37, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Hi
>
> Someone was complaining that task-gnome was pulling in 32bit packages
> on 64bit Mageia.
> See bug #5188 (https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5188).
>
> It turns out that a package (swell-foop) was noarch whereas it
> shouldn't be since
> it contains binaries.
>
> Please make arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object a
> reason to reject
> packages at upload time:
>
> swell-foop.noarch: W:
> arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object /usr/bin/swell-foop
>
> Thanks
+1

But then we have got again 32-bit software marked as noarch (Skype,..). 
And people seem too lazy to add 1 simple source for it..