[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#1019935: xorriso: Please make Multi-Arch: foreign

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

such Debian specifics are more a matter of my sponsor's opinion than
of my own. Cc-ing Dominique Dumont, therefore.


Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Since AIUI the xorriso package provides only a tool whose behavior is
> exactly the same on all architectures,

It depends on libburn which behaves different on Hurd compared to Linux.
On Linux it can operate optical drive by SCSI passthrough (SG_IO).
On Hurd it cannot (and i am not aware of a passthrough opportunity there).
Another dependency, libisofs, shows differences when it comes to reading
or writing ACL and xattr.

The use case of creating bootable ISO images is normally not affected by
these differences.


> could you make it
> Multi-Arch: foreign
> so that the Debian Installer can use it as foreign dependency for
> cross-builds?

Is the described situation still suitable for Multi-Arch: foreign ?
If so: Should libburn, libisofs, and libisoburn get the same change ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas