Bug#943465: fwupd is wrongly marked Multi-Arch: foreign
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> From: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:30 AM
> To: Limonciello, Mario
> Cc: 943465@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#943465: fwupd is wrongly marked Multi-Arch: foreign
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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 02:08:34PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > I took a stab at how this should work here (not yet merged):
> >
> https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/commit/809eb181f57dc5158b5d37d2855a0a48
> eafc3565
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> > Can you please review that and make sure you agree it's done correctly?
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> I think this should technically work, but it seems unnecessarily
> complex.
Thanks for reviewing it.
>
> You split the various firmware packages into
> fwupd-$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)-unsigned. Why did you do that? Why not have one
> real fwupd-unsigned package? Clearly you intend them to be
> coinstallable, which is why you marked them M-A:same. Note that M-A:same
> doesn't make sense, when you only list one specific architecture in the
> Architecture field. Can you maybe do the following?
>
> d/control:
> Package: fwupd-unsigned
> Architecture: amd64 i386 ...
> Multi-Arch: same
> no Provides:
>
> I also think that Built-Using must refer to real packages, which is not
> presently the case. My suggestion would ensure that.
>
I made some modifications and think I captured your suggestion here
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/commit/3508aecefdbd81924314834ac9e14bcd71aa253f
Can you make sure that looks good now?
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