Comment 8 for bug 238141

Many thanks, that clarifies significantly.

I will definitely look at the pbuilder doc to see if there is some hint on how not to build the arch-independent package, and if I find something useful, I might post it here, for reference just in case someone else runs into this issue. Also, I suspected that the i386 arch was treated somehow differently. However, it is quite difficult to find mention about it in the build log, which is kind of weird... is it just the "-A" passed to sbuild-package?

The strange point is the fact that this has not changed recently, since I was able to build my package in the ppa up to the previous version... might it depend on the debian policy version declared in the package? I.e., moving from 3.8.3 to 3.8.4?