[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#631836: Bug#631836: Bug#631836: Please transition avahi for multiarch

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 06:03:01PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 29.06.2011 12:36, schrieb Steve Langasek:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 04:31:55AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> >> Could you also explain to me (or point me to the relevant documentation)
> >> why python-avahi changed from arch all to arch any.

> > Sorry for the lack of documentation.  Unfortunately I didn't even document
> > it well enough for myself locally, so I'm struggling to remember now why I
> > did this.  I *think* it had to do with the fact that libavahi-common-data is
> > Architecture: any / Multi-Arch: same, because the gdbm database files are
> > not architecture-independent, and you need a python-gdbm that corresponds to
> > the architecture of libavahi-common-data that you have installed.  But since
> > you can't actually install more than one copy of python on your system at a
> > time, and python-avahi depends on python (obviously), I can't now work out
> > after the fact why I thought this was needed.  It may just be a bug in my
> > thinking at the time - if everything installs ok using an Architecture: all
> > python-avahi, then feel free to drop this change.

> Maybe this sounds stupid, but how can I test if everything installs ok?

Build the source package for two architectures; grab the dpkg from the git
branch listed at
<http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation#Using_multiarch> and
configure it to know about your foreign arch; test-install the Multi-Arch:
same packages for both architectures using dpkg -i.  If everything installs,
I think that's enough to show that the Arch: any wasn't needed.

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