On Sun, 2018-12-16 at 21:23 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi Anton and list, > > > with your commit > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/console-setup/commit/cb7ca79c4e2e81f117a0de7faa90d44ae3b25ec5 > all udebs of console-setup were declared as Multi-Arch: foreign > > Now lintian claims about "multi-arch" being a unknown field for control files > for all the udeb packages; see > https://lintian.debian.org/full/debian-b...@lists.debian.org.html#console-setup_1.187 > > > So, what's wrong here? > > Are udebs not allowed to be multi-arch? > Or is lintian not aware of some kind of rule for multi-arch in udebs?
udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support multi- arch. Until they do there's probably little point in adding that information to udebs. Ben. > Unfortunately, the debian-policy still does not contain docs about > multi-arch fields... -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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