http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666772 has been pending for some time now.
This is about whether arch:all packages should be treated as implictly MA: foreign when considering build-deps (as opposed to actually marking it so in every package). This has been enabled in Ubuntu for a year or so and makes multiarch cross-building work a lot better. It didn't cause any problems that I am aware of, and I'm wondering if there is any reason not to do this in Debian too? It would make the lives of anyone actually using this stuff significantly easier. The only issue that might make one conservative about this is that we don't yet have a solution to the 'perl-module' problem of transitive arch-dependencies (XS-module -> arch:all module -> XS module), but I can't actually see why the above change would impede solutions to the latter. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130701173132.gv14...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk