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Re: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages



Stuart Prescott <stuart <at> debian.org> writes:

> Unfortunately, the people who understand multiarch well enough to write it 
> up for policy haven't done so which leaves us with no normative 
> documentation in policy for the the Multi-Arch field in Packages, no 
> description of how the package manager should deal with multi-arch packages 
> and their dependencies and no documentation of best practices for -dev 
> packages etc.

This can be read as "M-A in its current form is RC-buggy and must
not be released". With the obvious follow-ups (revert M-A perl/python
in sid, as Guillem said).

bye,
//mirabilos


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