Hello Helmut,
On Mon, Sep 04 2017, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 08:44:14AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Rather than introduce the new terminology 'intended interface', which
>> we would definitely have to define, how about something like this:
>>
>> If all a package's archi
On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 08:44:14AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Rather than introduce the new terminology 'intended interface', which we
> would definitely have to define, how about something like this:
>
> If all a package's architecture-dependent interfaces are listed in
> README.multiar
Hi Simon,
On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 05:26:57PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> That seems like it might be a bug (or design flaw if you prefer). If a
> package (build-)depends on foo:any, it is saying "I am only using the
> arch-indep parts of foo's interface", whatever those are.
You may call it fe
On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 at 08:44:14 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20 2017, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > A common theme with such cases is to resort to `Multi-Arch: allowed`
> > (e.g. make), but that has the downside of requiring most consumers to
> > attach the :any annotation and that it can ne
Hello Helmut,
On Sun, Aug 20 2017, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>> - I couldn't figure out how to include this text, because I didn't
>> understand it:
>>
>> For instance, using dpkg --print-architecture can be used to emit the
>> native architecture even though dpkg is marked Multi-Arch:
>>
Hi Sean,
Thanks for picking up multiarch!
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 09:50:21PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I spoke to Russ and we're both of the view that we should document
> multiarch piecemeal. Let's begin by getting a definition of the
> Multi-Arch: field into ch. 5 of policy.
I'm glad you a
Hello Helmut,
I spoke to Russ and we're both of the view that we should document
multiarch piecemeal. Let's begin by getting a definition of the
Multi-Arch: field into ch. 5 of policy.
I have pushed a new branch to the Debian policy repo named
bug749826-spwhitton. On that branch I've committed
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