Package: coreutils
Version: 8.13-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise
Hi,
It would be useful for coreutils to be marked "Multi-Arch: foreign", to
indicate that it can satisfy (presumably versioned) 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 our kernels still have the old "coreutils | fileutils
(>= 4.0)" dependency (I've filed a separate bug about that, as it's
clearly cruft). I don't have a specific use case in mind in Debian, but
versioned dependencies on coreutils aren't unheard of so I expect one
will turn up sooner or later.
* Mark coreutils Multi-Arch: foreign.
diff -u coreutils-8.13/debian/control coreutils-8.13/debian/control
--- coreutils-8.13/debian/control
+++ coreutils-8.13/debian/control
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
Package: coreutils
Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Essential: yes
Replaces: mktemp, timeout
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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