Bug#670679: python-debian: deb822 can't parse foreign architecture (package:any) relationships

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Stefano & python-debian maintainers,

Looking at the patches to support :any relationships in python-debian, I think 
I have to agree that adding :any and :native at the same time makes sense. 

	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchCross

The present set of patches for :any adds a key 'foreign-arch' to the 
dictionary that is True if :any has been specified. Does it make sense to add 
yet another key for :native? Or would setting a generic key that contains 
either 'native', 'any' or ''/None (for the unqualified case) make more sense? 
For reference Dpkg::Deps.pm does this with the key 'archqual' and I'm quite 
tempted to say that sticking close to what Dpkg does has advantages here.

	
http://sources.debian.net/src/dpkg/1.17.9/scripts/Dpkg/Deps.pm?hl=682#L576

thoughts?

cheers
Stuart

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