On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:41 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.99
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise
>
> Hi,
>
> It would be useful for initramfs-tools to be marked "Multi-Arch:
> foreign", to indicate that it can satisfy dependencies of packages of
> other architectures. Although Debian's dpkg doesn't yet do anything
> special with this, it's safe to add this tag in advance of package
> manager support.
>
> In Ubuntu, this is an early step in being able to crossgrade from i386
> to amd64, because we don't have an -amd64 kernel flavour on i386 and (of
> course) our kernel packages depend on initramfs-tools. While Debian
> does have an -amd64 flavour on i386, it still wouldn't hurt to add this
> tag.
[...]
This is also relevant to Debian now.
Max, please apply this patch.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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