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

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I was more thinking about architecture (i386, amd64, arm, etc.)
> difference, not OS difference :)

As long as it is Linux, libburn indeed behaves the same, modulo configuration
options. Similarly with libisofs, where the presence of development headers
or configuration options is significant.
With Debian i would expect to find the same headers and options in all
Linux arches.


> > Is the described situation still suitable for Multi-Arch: foreign ?

> I'm not sure which situation you are referring to?

The fact that xorriso and the libraries differ in their capabilities
on the various supported OSes. In case of Debian i thought mostly of Hurd.


> Libraries are sually Multi-Arch: same, meaning they have to be the same
> as the packages using them. That's actually already the case for
> libburn, libisofs, and libisoburn.

The current Multi-Arch headers of libisoburn, libisofs, and libburn
source packages were introduced on request of Matthias Klose in 2016:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813020
  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/235561045/libburn_1.4.2-1_1.4.2-1ubuntu1.diff.gz


> Looking further: cdrskin, xorriso-tcltk, and xorriso-dd-target should
> probably also be Multi-Arch: foreign.

Seems plausible if xorriso gets it.

Dominique: Do you agree ?

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If so:

I am a bit confused by the presence of a section
"libisoburn (1.5.4-3) unstable" in
  https://salsa.debian.org/optical-media-team/libisoburn/-/raw/HEAD/debian/changelog
while libisoburn is at 1.5.4-2 in
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libisoburn

My cheat sheet says that i shall add new sections with "UNRELEASED" instead
of "unstable" and that you change this word when uploading.
So i wonder why it is "unstable" but did not make it into Sid or Testing.

Shall i add the new changelog entry to 1.5.4-3 and change it back to
"UNRELEASED" or shall i make a new "(1.5.4-4) UNRELEASED" ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas