[DRE-maint] Bug#1093724: src:ruby-minitest: mark the binary package as MA: foreign

[Antonio Terceiro]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 01:17:48PM -0700, Zixing Liu wrote:
> Package: ruby-minitest
> Version: 5.22.3-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu plucky ubuntu-patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This package should be able to install when doing the cross-compilation.
> Let's mark the package as Multi-Arch: foreign.
> 
> In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
> 
>   * Mark package as Multi-Arch: foreign
> 
> 
> Thanks for considering the patch.

Given ruby-minitest is a test runner, and that when cross compiling
tests should not be executed, any packages only used to run tests should
be marked as <!nocheck> in the build dependencies.

On the other hand, I see 130+ packages that build-depend on
ruby-minitest, so maybe doing this could be a shortcut.

Can you ellaborate on the context in which this was necessary in Ubuntu?
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