[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#732743: fontforge: please mark fontforge multiarch foreign

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Package: fontforge
Version: 20120731.b-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch trusty

Dear Maintainer,

fontforge is typically used to generate and process fonts at buildtime,
the output that is produced by fontforge under such conditions is
platform independant. There are packages that build-depend on fontforge,
and thus to enable cross-compilation of those, it would help to mark
fontforge / fontforge-nox packages as Multi-Arch: foreign, similar to
other build-tools, e.g. automake, autoconf, et. al.

Something like below patch should be sufficient:

diff -Nru fontforge-20120731.b/debian/control fontforge-20120731.b/debian/control
--- fontforge-20120731.b/debian/control	2013-11-02 18:52:10.000000000 +0000
+++ fontforge-20120731.b/debian/control	2013-12-20 23:11:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 
 Package: fontforge
 Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          fontforge-common (= ${source:Version}),
          libfontforge1 (= ${binary:Version}),
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@
 
 Package: fontforge-nox
 Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          fontforge-common (= ${source:Version}),
          libfontforge1 (= ${binary:Version}),


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Regards,

Dimitri.