[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

[Bertram Felgenhauer]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> I've contemplated dropping the Multi-Arch: foreign notation in systemd and
> maybe also for policykit-1.
>
> Is there a valid use case where we need/want a foreign systemd/policykit-1?

Wouldn't that go in the wrong direction? I'd think that we want the
native systemd or policykit daemon to satisfy a foreign dependency,
and that's what `Multi-Arch: foreign` allows.

In fact https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#line-1-3 suggests that
the scenario I ended up in *should* not have happened; the installer
should've preferred the native (amd64 for me) version of the package.

So that's an argument in favor of leaving things as they are.

Bertram