Re: dpkg-dev backport & multiarch (was: Re: samba (2:3.6.1-3) squeeze-backports request)
Raphael Hertzog schrieb am Thursday, den 08. March 2012:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > * Schaefer-Hutter <schaefer.hutter@gmail.com> [2012-02-25 18:03:59 CET]:
> > > Am 25.02.2012 13:40, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > >so you should have an empty DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH string, and no triplet
> > > >should appear. Maybe you installed some dpkg-dev from bpo (I didn't
> > > >check whether it brings multiarch support)?
> > >
> > > Hmpf! Yes, you're right. I had debhelper 9.20120115~bpo60+1 installed
> > > which in turn brings dpkg-dev 1.16.1.1~bpo60+2 that defines DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH.
> >
> > Buxy, can you confirm that the dpkg-dev backport brings in multiarch
> > support? I wonder if this might cause troubles for backports because
> > squeeze doesn't support multiarch?
>
> The only "support" is that it provides the DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH variable
> if you query it via dpkg-architecture.
>
> We already took care of disabling multiarch within debhelper, this is
> enough for most packages.
>
> If someone backports a package that needed manual modification to
> implement multi-arch, then obviously the backport will usually require
> manual modifications to undo/disable those changes.
>
> The existence of the DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH variable should not be used as an
> indicator that multiarch is supported in the target distribution IMO. That
> said if you prefer to disable that variable, I can do it.
imho this variable does not have any usecase in squeeze so I guess it may
prevent some errors. So please do so.
Thanks for your support
Alex
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