Bug#695087: xauth: Please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

["Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi,

2012-12-04 03:40 Colin Watson:
> Package: xauth
> Version: 1:1.0.7-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: crossbuild@debian.org
> Usertags: cross
>
> xauth is Architecture: any, but on a multiarch system it doesn't matter
> which architecture you get as long as you can execute its binaries.
> It's a build-dependency of 99 packages in unstable.  Accordingly, it
> would be helpful to mark it Multi-Arch: foreign to avoid blocking
> cross-builds of those packages; that would allow cross-builds to use the
> version of xauth for the architecture being built on, which is generally
> best for tools as opposed to libraries.
>
>  * Mark xauth Multi-Arch: foreign.
>
> diff -u xauth-1.0.7/debian/control xauth-1.0.7/debian/control
> --- xauth-1.0.7/debian/control
> +++ xauth-1.0.7/debian/control
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>
> Package: xauth
> Architecture: any
> +Multi-Arch: foreign
> Depends:
>  ${shlibs:Depends},
>  ${misc:Depends},

So this was applied in March 2015, marking it as +pending [*]:

 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/app/xauth.git/commit/?id=05316d3596f2f66fa1fa39a43318308f8c2179ea


[*] although, after all this time, I wonder if it be applied soon :)

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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>