Re: Multi-Arch: same for arch-dep lib*-perl?

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi

Please take this with care, it is more a question on what a package
needs to additionally satisfy for having a Multi-Arch field added.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 01:56:56PM -0700, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:10:54 -0700, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > However, M-A:same is clearly what we want eventually for these packages,
> > so adding the tags now is early preparation for that and saves work
> > later if/when we do get the perl side working.
> 
> Ok, so the logic is "if Architecure: any then Multi-Arch: same",
> right?
> 
> And this should probably go into
> - dh-make-perl for new packages (and refresh)
> - our lintian check
> - a mass-commit to the existing packages

Can we do this only for also package which have also some other
constraints updated? I mean the following: [1] gives some guidelines
on how to convert packages. For example for package using dh and
autotools, the compat level needs to be on 9, debhelper at least (>=
9).

 [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation#Recipes_for_converting_packages

Regards,
Salvatore