Re: [PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 2013-09-19, 16:42:
> > > any proposals on how to detect packages that import ctypes
> > It's not necessarily only ctypes.
> What are the other cases?

struct.unpack() with native order comes to mind.

> > > (other than parsing sources, please ;)
>
> > Don't detect anything. Add an option (say, --multiarch-me-harder), so that 
> > maintainers can opt-in for :any dependencies.
>
> That doesn't sound to me like it's optimizing for the common case.

The purpose of automatic dependency mechanism is not optimize for the common 
case; such a mechanism should assume worst case.

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Jakub Wilk