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Re: Bug#996627: kodi-data: Kodi cannot be installed on a foreign architecture



Hi Adam!

CC'ing you because I would like to understand if removing "m-a: foreign" from kodi-data might affect dependency resokution on stable.

I really hope it will not put a roadblock to future Kodi 19.x updates in stable :)
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16 жовтня 2021 р. 16:58:34 UTC, Vasyl Gello <vasek.gello@gmail.com> написав(-ла):
Hi Helmut!

I vaguely guess that we're in case b) here.

You are absolutely correct! Kodi data package hosts code which is executed by Kodi binary and
it depends on python3:any.

If you don't like removing
Multi-Arch: foreign from kodi-data, there is another way out: Move the
python modules to a new kodi-python-addons package. Move the relevant
python dependencies to this package. Make it Architecture: any (not
all). It can become Multi-Arch: same, but that won't help much. Any user
of it must depend on kodi-python-addons directly. A dependency from
kodi-data to kodi-python-addons is not sufficient (as kodi-data is
supposed to remain Multi-Arch: foreign).

This is what I want to do!

However, this points to another drawback: we can not propagate modified packages to
stable and oldstable-bpo. So I guess removing "Multi-Arch: foreign" is better for 19.x
and for 20.x I am going to implement the refactored scheme of packages.

Is that OK to just drop "m-a: foreign" from kodi-data:all or I need something more to fix?
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16 жовтня 2021 р. 16:22:09 UTC, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> написав(-ла):
Hi,

I think this bug has been diverted to being able to use widevinecdm.
While that turns the original request a little academic, there still is
a bug there.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 02:07:19PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote:
13:37 <teythoon> but, kodi-data (which is ma: foreign) depends on
python3-pycryptodome which contains architecture-dependent code
aiui

This raises the question of why kodi-data depends on
python3-pycryptodome. There are basically two reasonable answers:

a) It provides programs (something you can run from a shell) that happen
to use python3-pycryptodome. In this case, kodi-data also must depend
on a python3 interpreter.

b) It provides python modules that use python3-pycryptodome (to be
imported by other packages). In this case, kodi-data must not be
marked Multi-Arch: foreign.

So regardless of the widevinecdm issue, this is a bug in kodi-data.



Now this all doesn't solve the problem of foreign installation, but we
can only really think about that once we have correct metadata.

Once it has been fixed and a week has passed, we should look into
https://bootstrap.debian.net/foreign_install/kodi.html. It gives a good
overview of the outstanding metadata issues.

I hope this makes sense to you. If it does not, please don't hesitate to
ask.

Helmut


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