[Debconf-devel] Bug#614197: please mark debconf 'Multi-Arch: foreign'

[Steve Langasek]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.36
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch

Hi guys,

I've just applied a patch to debconf in Ubuntu to mark the debconf package
'Multi-Arch: foreign'; this indicates, per
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec>, that debconf will satisfy the
dependencies of packages of other architectures when it's installed.

Since debconf is rather low in the stack, and it's perfectly safe to tag
packages as Multi-Arch: foreign in advance of a package manager that's
capable of understanding this (which should be along soon in any case), I
request that this be set on the package in Debian as well.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control	2010-12-17 13:47:36 +0000
+++ debian/control	2011-02-20 10:11:24 +0000
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 Suggests: debconf-doc, debconf-utils, whiptail | dialog | gnome-utils, libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130), libnet-ldap-perl, perl, libqtgui4-perl, libqtcore4-perl
 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Description: Debian configuration management system
  Debconf is a configuration management system for debian packages. Packages
  use Debconf to ask questions when they are installed.