Re: automatically cross-grading lib32nss-mdns to libnss-mdns:i386?
On 1 November 2013 13:28, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> If cross-architecture dependencies are allowed in the archive (and don't
> break dak or britney) these days, then it's easy:
>
> Package: libnss-mdns
> Architecture: any
> Multi-Arch: same
>
> Package: lib32nss-mdns
> Architecture: amd64
> Depends: libnss-mdns:i386 (= ${binary:Version})
> Description: ... transitional package ...
>
> I thought I remembered an announcement that cross-arch dependencies were
> OK for jessie, but I couldn't find it, so that might just be wishful
> thinking?
>
This one is allowed:
Depends: python:any
Actually spelling out the arch, is not.
> The only other option I can think of is to imitate Wine:
>
> Package: libnss-mdns
> Architecture: any
> Multi-Arch: same
>
> Package: lib32nss-mdns
> Architecture: amd64
> Depends: libnss-mdns-i386 (= ${binary:Version})
> Description: ... transitional package ...
>
> Package: libnss-mdns-i386
> Architecture: i386
> Depends: libnss-mdns (= ${binary:Version})
> Description: ... transitional package ...
>
> but that requires yet another content-free package, and a trip through
> the NEW queue. So, before I upload that: is there a better way?
>
That's the currently supported way of doing such migration.
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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