Bug#745555: Multi-Arch: foreign please

[Yunqiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 21:29 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>> Package: kernel-wedge
>> Version: 2.88
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Would it be possible to mark the kernel-wedge package as Multi-Arch:
>> foreign? The direct use case would be improving on satisfiability of
>> Build-Dependencies of src:linux. Currently dpkg-checkbuilddeps will
>> complain about kernel-wedge not being satisfied.
>>
>> >From looking at the package contents it seems that kernel-wedge does
>> properly distinguish between host arch and build arch when used as a
>> build tool. In other words, I didn't find anything obvious that renders
>> M-A:foreign a non-option.
>
> I can confirm that I can cross-build src:linux for armel and armhf

I can confirm that I can cross build mips64el kernel

> (though I don't test the resulting udebs).  So I'll make this change in
> git at least.
>
> Ben.
>
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> Ben Hutchings
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Yunqiang Su