[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#692832: Erlang should be multi-arch: foreign

[Scott Ritchie]

Package: erlang
Version: 1:15.b.1-dfsg-3

Binary packages within erlang should be declared Multi-arch: foreign. 
While erlang is arch: all, without this field apt will assume that the 
transitive dependencies of any package depending on erlang will need to 
be satisified with the same architecture; ie, on an amd64 system 
installing a 32-bit package that depends on erlang will pull in the 
32-bit version of zlib1g.

This could make such an erlang-dependent package uninstallable in some 
circumstances.