Bug#1103995: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1103995: unblock: rust-debcargo/2.7.8-4

[Fabian Grünbichler <debian@fabian.gruenbichler.email>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025, at 2:13 AM, Peter Green wrote:
>> 
>> If preferred, a variant of the proposed changes with a default of "no" would
>> also be possible
>
> I think the default (for bin packages) should be not to generate a multi-arch:
> field at all.
>
> This is behaviorally equivalent to multi-arch: no, but it IMO has different
> implications, it implies "noone has thought about multi-arch for this package"
> rather than "sometime has thought about multi-arch for this package and
> rejected it"

Thanks for the quick feedback!

Helmut Grohne raised a similar objection on IRC, and like I noted in unblock
request, that works just as well. Having "no" as default is easiest, having
no default (which like you say, is "behaviorally equivalent") means a bit
more code changes, but can be supported as well.