Package: autotools-dev
Version: 20120210.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch
Hi Henrique,
The autotools-dev package is a frequent build-dependency of packages that
it's interesting to cross-build. As discussed in bug #646288, if a
build-dependency is not tagged as a multiarch package, apt will expect to
install the host-arch version of the package; however, as described in the
multiarch specification at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec>,
Architecture: all packages are always treated as being packages of the
native architecture (i.e., the build arch) for multiarch purposes.
The attached patch has therefore been applied in Ubuntu to make
autotools-dev Multi-Arch: foreign, so that it can be used as a
cross-build-dependency. Please consider applying this change in Debian as
well.
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Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
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=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control 2012-02-13 21:25:55 +0000
+++ debian/control 2012-03-30 20:27:57 +0000
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
Package: autotools-dev
Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: ${misc:Depends}
Enhances: cdbs, debhelper
Description: Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub} files
