[Pkg-javascript-devel] Time to switch to "Build-Depends-Indep" ?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 06:44:34PM +0100, Xavier wrote:
> OK, but we have many (not all) packages that have a "node-foo could be
> marked Multi-Arch: foreign" even if they are installed in
> /usr/share/nodejs and Perl packages don't have such "action needed" in
> tracker.d.o

Isn't that simply because either:
 * those perl packages can't be marked m-a:foreign due to their
   dependencies not being m-a:foreign/m-a:same/m-a:allowed?  note that a
   single arch-dep dependency not marked m-a:same/m-a:allowed will break
   the m-a:foreign-ness of the binary.
 * they are already marked m-a:foreign


As an example of a perl module with the same warning you are talking
about see:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libperl-osnames-perl

Else, feel free to show me a perl module that is lacking the warning and
I can try to deduce why it's missing.

> Looking at Perl practices, it seems that "architecture: all" packages
> uses only Build-Depends-Indep except for debhelper-compat
> 
> So is this a way to improve multi-arch ?

I don't think that's much relevant to multi-arch, no.  That said, it's
not a bad thing to do :)

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