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

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

I have removed that declarations in GIT now.


Thanks
Holger


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