[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#638137: Bug#638137: Please transition openssl for multiarch

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:13:01PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 03:50:45PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > So I've uploaded the patch.

> > Looks like this bug wasn't closed, thanks to the typo "Closs: #xxxx"

> So closing it now instead.

> > Shouldn't "openssl" be Multi-Arch: foreign?

> A package with a Depends on openssl should work with any of
> the arches as far as I know.  So I think think that "foreign"
> would do the right thing in that case, but I'm not really sure
> enough about it to change it.

> Steve, do you have any comment about this?

"foreign" is correct for any package that provides only an exec() interface
to its reverse-dependencies; however in general I've only been pushing such
a change for packages that have actual multi-arch: same reverse-dependencies
(i.e., libraries as revdeps), since otherwise it just makes the packages
file bigger for no discernable benefit.

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