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 incorrectly. [3] Many people do not even know about the feature. To my knowledge it works now. Here are two questions: 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 tag descriptions. 2. Should Lintian issue any advice when it sees the :any multiarch acceptor? If so, for which packages? It might allow maintainers to undo erroneous advice they may have been given, although many folks use the feature legitimately, as well. Thank you! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] The affected versions were 2.107.0 and 2.108.0. [2] https://bugs.debian.org/994902 [3] https://bugs.debian.org/995981
