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

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

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On Sat, Oct  8, 2016 at 14:37:16 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:

> 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.
> 
Thanks for the explanation.

Cheers,
Julien