[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#677369: initscripts: Please mark initscripts as Multi-Arch: foreign

[Sven Joachim]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-27
Severity: wishlist

I'm experimenting with cross-grading packages from i386 to amd64; this
has to be done without much help from apt, unfortunately[1].  An
obstacle I found is that quite a few important packages have a
dependency on initscripts (mostly due to the /run transition), making
their crossgrade somewhat difficult.  If initcripts were marked
"Multi-Arch: foreign", its reverse dependencies could be crossgraded
without hassle.

Maybe it would also make sense to mark the other packages in the
sysvinit suite as "Multi-Arch: foreign" as well.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.2-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3.2
ii  debianutils     4.3.1
ii  libc6           2.13-33
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian7
ii  mount           2.20.1-5
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-27
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-27

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.4-2
ii  psmisc     22.17-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/rcS changed:
TMPTIME=0
SULOGIN=no
DELAYLOGIN=yes
VERBOSE=yes
FSCKFIX=no


-- no debconf information


1. Replacing foo:i386 with foo:amd64 is done by removing foo:i386 and
   then installing foo:amd64, which does not work for Essential packages.