hmm, ok, so vorlon pointed me to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Dependencies_involving_Architecture:_all_packages
as an explaination of why Architecture: all packages need to be explicitly marked as Multi-Arch: foreign. In particular, it's to avoid causing a problem where dependencies are made on Arch: all packages with the expectation that they'll pull in some arch-specific dependencies (e.g. Depends: python). So we have to explicitly mark all Architecture: all packages that don't run this particular risk. So, what does this mean for the pkg-fonts team? Given that all of our font packages are Architecture: all, but don't have these sort of chained arch-specific dependencies, i think we probably need to mark all of our packages Multi-Arch: foreign. Any thoughts from other team members? Is there a good way to make this change across all our packages fairly rapidly? Is there a spot check we can put into place? Should we try to get lintian to say packages named fonts-* that are Architecture: all should be marked Multi-Arch: foreign? --dkg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org