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Bug#649399: initramfs-tools: please mark Multi-Arch: foreign



* Ben Hutchings [Sat Feb 11, 2012 at 07:13:10PM +0000]:
> On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:41 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> > 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.

Colin's patch is already applied on our i-t.git, I'll upload a new
i-t release in the next few days.

regards,
-mika-

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