Bug#840085: xauth FTCBFS: unsatisfiable cross Build-Depends: cmdtest

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

Hi Julien,

On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Is there a reason cmdtest can't be m-a: foreign?  Wouldn't that fix the
> issue as well?

I agree that marking cmdtest m-a:foreign would fully resolves this bug.

I'm less sure that such a marking would be correct. cmdtest includes a
python module yarnlib, which uses architecture dependent Python
extensions. It seems to me that putting it in a m-a:foreign package runs
afoul the multi-arch interpreter problem.

So the correct solution could be splitting cmdtest into python-yarnlib,
switching users of yarnlib over to the separate package and then marking
cmdtest m-a:foreign.

Given the necessary package split here, I considered annotating
Build-Depends of 5 packages more economical. If you disagree with that
trade-off, I suggest:

tags -1 - moreinfo patch
reassign -1 cmdtest
retitle -1 make cmdtest m-a:foreign

Helmut