Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi Anton and list,
> 
> 
> with your commit
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/console-setup/commit/cb7ca79c4e2e81f117a0de7faa90d44ae3b25ec5
> all udebs of console-setup were declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

I found bug #694679
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694679
which has caused above commit. And this bug is only about the 
keyboard-configuration package.

So I assume that setting all udebs to "Multi-Arch: foreign" was not 
intended | needed, right?

> Now lintian claims about "multi-arch" being a unknown field for control files
> for all the udeb packages; see
> https://lintian.debian.org/full/debian-boot@lists.debian.org.html#console-setup_1.187
> 
> 
> So, what's wrong here?
> 
> Are udebs not allowed to be multi-arch?
> Or is lintian not aware of some kind of rule for multi-arch in udebs?
> 
> Unfortunately, the debian-policy still does not contain docs about 
> multi-arch fields...


Holger


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