Package: src:debian-edu,blends-dev User: debian-cr...@lists.debian.org Usertags: cross-satisfiability
debian-edu presently cannot be cross-built from source, because its dependency on blends-dev is not cross-satisfiable. In general, Architecture: all packages cannot satisfy cross Build-Depends unless marked Multi-Arch: foreign (or annotated :native). Before doing the obvious thing, please let us step back. debian-edu builds a pile of task packages. I am wondering, why are these task architecture-dependent? If they were Architecture: all, they would be irrelevant to cross building and this whole bug would become moot. So this is a relevant question. I have no answer. So if the education-* tasks do have to be Arch: any, then they're relevant to cross building. In that case, understanding their architecture-dependence is important to understanding whether we can mark blends-dev Multi-Arch: foreign. Keep in mind that Multi-Arch: foreign is a promise to downstreams that essentially says: This package works the same way regardless which architecture you install it for. I hope you can shed some light on these questions rather than blindly changing some Multi-Arch fields without understanding what they do. Thanks in advance Helmut
