Re: Multi-Arch and debian/control

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 02:06:36PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>   "multiarch-support is inserted into Pre-Depends via ${misc:Pre-Depends}
>    by dh_makeshlibs. In order to be able to remove the multiarch-supporti
>    package from glibc without updating every package,
>    Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} should be used instead."
> (I cannot spot a difference between the one and the other.)

It means the right way to Pre-Depends on multiarch-support is to use
${misc:Pre-Depends} and let debhelper to do the rest.

The "instead" refers to "instead of hardcoding it", which is what this
lintian check is about.

BTW: I asked this paragraph to be rewritten. See Bug#798762 for details.

Thanks.