[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#884926: mark docbook2x Multi-Arch: foreign

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: docbook2x
Version: 0.8.8-15
Tags: patch
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: rebootstrap

expat fails to cross build from source, because its build dependency on
docbook2x is unsatisfiable. docbook2x depends on libtext-wrapi18n-perl,
which is Architecture: all and (implicitly) Multi-Arch: no. Thus
docbook2x can only ever be for the native architecture. There are
multiple solutions to this problem. expat could annotate the dependency
with :native, docbook2x could become Multi-Arch: foreign or the
"multiarch interpreter workaround" could be applied for
libtext-wrapi18n-perl. Of these the one marking docbook2x seems
preferrable to me, because the package only contains executables
(/usr/bin) and architecture-independent files (/usr/share). I briefly
looked and determined that the programs contained are primarily used for
transforming text. Thus their behaviour should not vary with the
processor architecture. That suggests that the Multi-Arch: foreign
marking is indeed correct and when it is correct, it is to be preferred.

The attached patch adds that marking. Please consider applying it.

Helmut
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diff --minimal -Nru docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/changelog docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/changelog
--- docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/changelog	2016-07-28 08:37:07.000000000 +0200
+++ docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/changelog	2017-12-21 14:03:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+docbook2x (0.8.8-15.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Mark docbook2x Multi-Arch: foreign. (Closes: #-1)
+
+ -- Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de>  Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:03:26 +0100
+
 docbook2x (0.8.8-15) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload
diff --minimal -Nru docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/control docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/control
--- docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/control	2016-07-28 08:37:01.000000000 +0200
+++ docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/control	2017-12-21 14:03:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 Package: docbook2x
 Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: libtext-wrapi18n-perl,
          libxml-sax-expat-perl,
          opensp,