Re: Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch acceptor

2021-11-04 Thread Debian/GNU
On 11/3/21 23:34, Felix Lechner wrote: 1. Did anyone find the latest Lintian versions (2.109.0 and up) confusing as to whether the :any should be included? The material you would have encountered includes both the context offered by Lintian (the extra information after the tag) and any relevant t

Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch acceptor

2021-11-03 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, For a brief time between October 1 and October 15, Lintian gave potentially confusing advice on some build prerequisites. [1] The :any multiarch acceptor—a rarely used feature some other tools call the "muliarch qualifier"—was originally not implemented at all [2] and then implemented incorre