Simon McVittie:
On Sat, 08 Oct 2022 at 11:00:30 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:40:54 +0300 "Yuriy M. Kaminskiy"
<yumkam+deb...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think (at least, 'Multi-arch: foreign' *and* 'Architecture' != all)
packages should have explicit parent package arch dependency
Depend: foo:${Arch} (=${binary:Version})
instead of
Depend: foo (=${binary:Version})
So as a concrete example, for sed:amd64 (which is Multi-Arch: foreign),
sed-dbgsym:amd64 currently depends on sed (= 4.8-1) which can be satisfied
by sed:i386, and the request is for it to explicitly depend on
sed:amd64 (= 4.8-1) instead?
In essence, yes.
Though, I think it is better to read OP's email as a "functional
requirement" rather than the exact way to implement it.
I was under the impression that the Debian archive does not allow
dependencies with an explicit architecture like this, only the :any
qualifier for M-A: allowed packages (like python3:any). Am I basing this
on outdated information?
Policy ยง7 doesn't currently document multiarch qualifiers at all.
deb-control(5) documents foo:any and foo:amd64.
smcv
It is not clear to me that the archive supports it (or that apt, dak and
dpkg are all aligned on what "foo:amd64" means). However, as noted in
my debian-devel mail, I am not willing to spend time figuring out
whether "foo:amd64" works and much less provide patches if it does not.
Accordingly, I am not planning to do any research in that area.
Thanks,
~Niels
