Bug#649504: apt: please add multiarch support

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:00:55PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:43:08PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > > It misses a few things:
> > > 	- Compat level needs to be changed to 9
> > > 	- Build-depend on debhelper (>= 8.1.3~).
> > 
> > Why?  I'm not using any of the facilities in debhelper compat level 9,
> > because apt installs its libraries by manual .install files rather than
> > by passing --libdir etc. to configure.
> 
> You're using ${misc:Pre-Depends}, that at least requires a versioned
> debhelper dependency.

Oh, yes, granted.  (Should I send a new patch or can somebody do the
obvious?)

> It used to require compat 9, but that was changed sometime later.

The debhelper git history doesn't seem to back that up.  Commit
859b245e93028ff72ae9f19dc5f49af7406e7ac8 introduced misc:Pre-Depends ->
multiarch-support, and did not require any particular compat level for
it.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]