On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:41 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.99 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise > > Hi, > > It would be useful for initramfs-tools to be marked "Multi-Arch: > foreign", to indicate that it can satisfy 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 we don't have an -amd64 kernel flavour on i386 and (of > course) our kernel packages depend on initramfs-tools. While Debian > does have an -amd64 flavour on i386, it still wouldn't hurt to add this > tag. [...]
This is also relevant to Debian now.
Max, please apply this patch.
Ben.
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