On Sat, 28 Jun 2014, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: autopoint > Version: 0.18.3.2-2 > Severity: wishlist > User: helm...@debian.org > Usertags: rebootstrap > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > Is it possible to mark autopoint as Multi-Arch:foreign? > > Currently autopint has 106 reverse B-D, which are all not > cross-buildable, because there autopoint:$HOST is uninstallable. Most > notably make-dfsg, xz-utils and util-linux cannot be cross-built due to > this issue. > > There are good reasons to assume that autopoint can indeed be marked > Multi-Arch:foreign. > > * It is an Arch:all package without maintainer scripts, so it is not > inherently architecture dependent. > * The autopoint executable does not make any explicit use of the > architecture set by dpkg. > * Building xz-utils and util-linux with unsatisfied B-D (i.e. with > autopoint for the wrong architecture) works. > * Ubuntu generally treats all Arch:all packages in B-D as M-A:foreign > and has not yet experienced problems with this approach.
Seems ok. Will be done in the next upload (most probably 0.18.3.2-3, as I'm waiting for 0.19.2). Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
