noarching source packages

[Ken Brown]

On 5/1/2017 4:05 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/1/2017 3:57 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>> But the real problem is that besides our own stuff some upstream sources
>>>> are archful.
>>>
>>> Examples?
>>
>> Last I looked, it was texlive.
> 
> This might go back to the time when biber was distributed as a packed perl 
> archive on x86 but not x86_64.

No, it was actually due to the existence of source files of the form

     <pkg>.<cpu>-cygwin.tar.xz.

But it was fixed a year ago.  See the discussion at

     https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-05/msg00049.html

and cygport commit 5c559d5ea49d69116d3073b68c8fb1e70522370a.

Ken