[Pkg-fonts-devel] multi-arch: foreign for all fonts package? (was Re: Bug#705179: Bug#705179: fonts-unfonts-core should be marked multi-arch: foreign

Theppitak Karoonboonyanan thep at linux.thai.net
Thu May 9 04:48:40 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:17:37 +0200
> Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
>> Well, the thread that follows
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2012-December/011389.html
>> clearly says we want this, and Vasudev pushed a lintian fix to warn
>> about font packages not markedas "Multi-Arch: foreign" so I would say
>> we indeed decided about doing it...but do it for jessie.
>
>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Dependencies_involving_Architecture:_all_packages
>>>This means that for an Architecture: all package to satisfy the dependencies of
>>>a foreign-architecture package, it must be marked Multi-Arch: foreign or Multi-Arch: allowed.
>
>  okay... Thanks to Multi-Arch to bring this complexity ;-)

Just want to make sure that this does not include udebs, as multiarch
should not be needed in d-i context, right?

Regards,
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