Hi Julian,

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Julian Wollrath <jwollr...@web.de> wrote:
<snip>
>> - no idea if "Multi-Arch: foreign" has any benefits?
> I too do not really know if there are big benefits from it but since I had
> debian/control open in my editor and Debian is on the way to become aware of
> multi-arch, I thought it would not be the worst idea to make this package
> multi-arch aware too.

"Multi-Arch: foreign" in debian/control is useless for powertop, given
that it's not a dependency for any library packages (as far as I'm
aware). See [1] for a (concise) explanation on when to mark a package
as multi-arch: foreign.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] 
http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation#Multi-Arch:_foreign_support_packages


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