On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 08:31:07PM +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Steve Langasek > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've just applied a patch to libthai in Ubuntu to mark the libthai-data and > > libthai-doc packages 'Multi-Arch: foreign'; this indicates, per > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec>, that they will satisfy the > > dependencies of packages of other architectures when installed. > > Since libthai is rather low in the desktop stack, and it's perfectly safe to > > tag packages as Multi-Arch: foreign in advance of a package manager that's > > capable of understanding this (which should be along soon in any case), I > > request that this be set on the package in Debian as well. > If I understand it correctly, your main target is libthai-data, which has an > arch-dependent reverse-dependency (libthai0), right? Yes, that's correct. Specifically, it has a library runtime package as a reverse-dependency. > I'm OK to mark both libthai-data and libthai-doc as you suggest. I ask this > question because I'm wondering whether I should do the same to my > another package in the same stack (libdatrie). Yes, please! :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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