Bug#874013: libgl1-mesa-glx: transitional library package should not be Arch: all
On 06.09.2017 13:11, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: found -1 17.2.0-1
>
> On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 at 23:08:26 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> It would not be a correct solution to mark libgl1-mesa-glx:all as
>> M-A: foreign, because if it was, this dependency chain would be
>> considered to be valid:
>>
>> steam:i386 -> libgl1-mesa-glx:all -> libgl1:amd64 -> libglx0:amd64 -> libglx-mesa0:amd64
>>
>> and that is clearly not useful, because the i386 binaries in Steam cannot
>> load an amd64 libGL. The "i386ness" needs to be propagated all the way
>> through the dependency chain.
>
> Thanks for making libgl1-mesa-glx version 17.2.0-1 Architecture: any.
> However, it is also Multi-Arch: foreign. As I explained in the quoted text,
> M-A: foreign is not appropriate in this case, and will break
> cross-architecture packages like steam and wine. It should be M-A: same.
Your original text let me believe that making it arch:any would be
enough to fix this issue.
Fixed in git.
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