Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 17:18:10 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Quoting Ralf Treinen (2014-11-09 15:58:15)
> > Interesting, I did not know this. Is this documented somewhere? I just looked
> > through apt-get(1) man page and couldn't find it there.
> 
> it should definitely be documented in deb-control(5) but is not. I filed
> #768842.
> 
> Otherwise, this is documented in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchCross in
> sections "Cross-architecture dependencies" and "Toolchains". There is an
> ambiguity in the docs whether support for them was introduced in dpkg
> 1.16.2 or 1.16.7. Confusingly, support seems to have been implemented in dpkg
> git commit 7acf7afa which was released with version 1.16.5. In any case, wheezy
> has 1.16.15, so it definitely supports this.

Yeah, that wiki is a bit confused. <pkgname>:any was introduced in
dpkg 1.16.2, <pkgname>:<arch> and <pkgname>:native in dpkg 1.16.5.

1.16.1.2 and 1.16.7 are not relevant at all, the first of which has
actually never existed. :)

In any case, I'm adding the version introduction information to the
above mentioned man page update.

Thanks,
Guillem