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Re: Multiarching perl



Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> writes:

> In the wider view, do we need to (eventually) add M-A tags on all the
> perl module packages in the archive to make things like a foreign
> architecture irssi perl plugin generally usable?

Yes, probably.

> Can an arch:all perl module package be M-A:foreign?  What if it depends
> on an arch:any perl module package?

Indeed, I think this doesn't work properly.  M-A:foreign would allow a
non-native version of the arch:any Perl module package to satisfy its
dependency, but that wouldn't actually work if one were running Perl in
the native architecture.

That does feel like a hole.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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