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



On Sun, 2018-12-16 at 21:23 +0100, Holger Wansing 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
> 
> 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?

udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support multi-
arch.  Until they do there's probably little point in adding that
information to udebs.

Ben.

> Unfortunately, the debian-policy still does not contain docs about 
> multi-arch fields...

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.


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