Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:05:13AM -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit :
> 
> In bug #695229, I noted that an Architecture: all package really should
> be Multi-Arch: foreign.  This led to an IRC discussion between Goswin,
> Steve L. and me in which I formulated the proposal:
> 
>     If a package is 'Architecture: all', and all its dependencies are
>     'Multi-Arch: foreign' (including the case where there are no
>     dependencies), this package should implicitly be treated as
>     'Multi-Arch: foreign' as well.

Hello everybody,

have there been progresses on that question ?

In light of the last messages in this thread, which suggest that more than 250
packages should be converted from architecture-independant to
architecture-dependant in order to solve the problem, I wonder if it is useful
to start adding 'Multi-Arch: foreign' to 'Architecture: all' packages.

(I ask because it was suggested for mime-support in #695357)

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan