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Bug#677624: multiarch-support should be priority: required

Package: multiarch-support
Version: 2.13-33

Forwarding per Russ's observation that multiple required library
packages are depending on multiarch-support, which causes Lintian to
complain.

Given that it is a transitional package, this shouldn't be a big deal,
since it's less than 200k installed (and all of that package
documentation overhead)

Thanks,

						- Ted
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> If a required package (such as e2fslibs, which is required by e2fsprogs)
> provides multiarch support, then Lintian requires that the package have
> a dependency on the package "multiarch-support"[1].

> However, this causes debcheck to complain because you now have a
> required package depending on a package, multiarch-support, which is
> only at "standard" priority[2] 

> [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support.html
> [2] http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=unstable&package=e2fsprogs

> What is the right thing to do to resolve this mutually irreconcilable
> set of complaints from either Lintian or debcheck?

multiarch-support should be priority: required.  It's already a dependency
of several other priority: required packages, such as libselinux1 and
zlib1g.

That implies that in the interim you should ignore debcheck.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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