+++ Charles Plessy [2013-01-06 18:32 +0900]: > Le Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:05:13AM -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > > > In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should > > be Multi-Arch: foreign. This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin, > > Steve L. and me in which I formulated the proposal: > > > > If a package is 'Architecture: all', and all its dependencies are > > 'Multi-Arch: foreign' (including the case where there are no > > dependencies), this package should implicitly be treated as > > 'Multi-Arch: foreign' as well. > > Hello everybody, > > have there been progresses on that question ? > > In light of the last messages in this thread, which suggest that more than 250 > packages should be converted from architecture-independant to > architecture-dependant in order to solve the problem, I wonder if it is useful > to start adding 'Multi-Arch: foreign' to 'Architecture: all' packages.
Yes it is. 695229 means that you won't _have_ to, but fixing the metadata in the package is always correct. > (I ask because it was suggested for mime-support in #695357) There are tens of these pending, upload away! Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130106111112.gc5...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
