On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:16:59 +0200 Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org> wrote: > Hi again, Jakub, > > Am Montag, den 31.08.2015, 12:09 +0200 schrieb Jakub Wilk: > > Python used to be the classic example: > > "python" was an arch:all meta-package that depended on "python2.X". > > But if a Python module depended on "python", it was because it needed a > > Python interpreter of the same architecture. > > so, can we say then that an Arch:all package should get the Multi > -Arch:foreign flag, except it depends on an architecture-dependent > package? > > - Fabian > Hi, The issue then being that Lintian can say very little about the dependencies of a given packages (except if it has none). So the only cases we can reliably argue about are: * No dependencies at all * No dependencies outside packages built from the same source I could be wrong, but it smells like a fairly small target set we can reliably deal with. Thanks, ~Niels
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