Bug#649399: initramfs-tools: please mark Multi-Arch: foreign
* Ben Hutchings [Sat Feb 11, 2012 at 07:13:10PM +]: On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:41 +, Colin Watson wrote: It would be useful for initramfs-tools to be marked Multi-Arch: foreign, to indicate that it can satisfy dependencies of packages of other architectures. Although Debian's dpkg doesn't yet do anything special with this, it's safe to add this tag in advance of package manager support. In Ubuntu, this is an early step in being able to crossgrade from i386 to amd64, because we don't have an -amd64 kernel flavour on i386 and (of course) our kernel packages depend on initramfs-tools. While Debian does have an -amd64 flavour on i386, it still wouldn't hurt to add this tag. [...] This is also relevant to Debian now. Max, please apply this patch. Colin's patch is already applied on our i-t.git, I'll upload a new i-t release in the next few days. regards, -mika- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#649399: initramfs-tools: please mark Multi-Arch: foreign
On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:41 +, Colin Watson wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.99 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise Hi, It would be useful for initramfs-tools to be marked Multi-Arch: foreign, to indicate that it can satisfy dependencies of packages of other architectures. Although Debian's dpkg doesn't yet do anything special with this, it's safe to add this tag in advance of package manager support. In Ubuntu, this is an early step in being able to crossgrade from i386 to amd64, because we don't have an -amd64 kernel flavour on i386 and (of course) our kernel packages depend on initramfs-tools. While Debian does have an -amd64 flavour on i386, it still wouldn't hurt to add this tag. [...] This is also relevant to Debian now. Max, please apply this patch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. - Robert Coveyou signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#649399: initramfs-tools: please mark Multi-Arch: foreign
Hi Colin, * Colin Watson [Sun Nov 20, 2011 at 05:41:09PM +]: It would be useful for initramfs-tools to be marked Multi-Arch: foreign, to indicate that it can satisfy dependencies of packages of other architectures. Although Debian's dpkg doesn't yet do anything special with this, it's safe to add this tag in advance of package manager support. [...] I've added it to the mika/multi_arch_foreign branch in initramfs-tools.git so it's scheduled for review and inclusion in the upcoming initramfs-tools release. Thanks for your patch! regards, -mika- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#649399: initramfs-tools: please mark Multi-Arch: foreign
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.99
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise
Hi,
It would be useful for initramfs-tools to be marked Multi-Arch:
foreign, to indicate that it can satisfy dependencies of packages of
other architectures. Although Debian's dpkg doesn't yet do anything
special with this, it's safe to add this tag in advance of package
manager support.
In Ubuntu, this is an early step in being able to crossgrade from i386
to amd64, because we don't have an -amd64 kernel flavour on i386 and (of
course) our kernel packages depend on initramfs-tools. While Debian
does have an -amd64 flavour on i386, it still wouldn't hurt to add this
tag.
If you're wondering why this tag is needed on an Architecture: all
package, see the multiarch specification:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Dependencies_involving_Architecture:_all_packages
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 75bf493..8ca8827 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/kernel/initramfs-tools.git
Package: initramfs-tools
Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
Recommends: busybox (= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-initramfs
Depends: klibc-utils (= 1.5.23-2~), cpio, module-init-tools, udev, findutils
(= 4.2.24), ${misc:Depends}
Suggests: bash-completion
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]
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