Bug#616493: lintian: Should know about the Multi-Arch field

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2011-03-11 20:25, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> [...]
>>   I also included a sanity check of the values of the field (one of the
>> four listed in your email in all lowercase).  I have not added any
> 
> Great.
> 
>> sanity (cross-)check for multi-arch vs. content/architecture, so Lintian
>> will (at least for now) happily accept Architecture: all with
>> Multi-Arch: foreign (or whatever).  I am keeping this bug open to track
>> the status of such additional checks.
> 
> The only forbidden combination is Architecture: all / Multi-Arch: same.
> The rest is allowed. But dpkg already enforces this at build time[1] so it's
> ok if there's no check in lintian.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> [1] Not yet in sid but in the multi-arch branch that we're working on.

Hey,

Somehow it felt empty without that check, so I decided to implement it
any way.  :)

~Niels