Guillem, I still think you should explicitly mention the cases when switching from arch:all to arch:any or vice versa and what to do and what not. As I am not so well versed in dpkg internals the commit you mentioned doesn't make it very clear for me.
O. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015, at 16:51, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: forcemerge 776072 -1 > > Hi! > > On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 06:08:29 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 14:30:09 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > > Control: reassign -1 dpkg > > > > > Thus filling this as a wishlist... feel free to mark it as wontfix or > > > just document that it won't be supported never ever - both are fine with > > > me, but of course if you can come up with some solution that would allow > > > this to work without jumping through the hoops, it would be much > > > preferred. > > > > I'll think about this, but take into account that dpkg-maintscript-helper > > has always been just a hack to cover deficiencies in dpkg itself, and a > > proper integrated solution should be developed instead. If a solution > > for this does not interfere much or does not make other things ugly > > I might add it, otherwise I'd rather come up with a proper replacement > > for the helper. But, I might end up just closing it, see below… > > I think the other merged bug, already fixed in git should cover this > problem, by improving the documentation. Let me know if it does not. > > <https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=9d70c7a6582b2d> > > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014, at 13:08, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014, at 12:24, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > > dpkg-maintscript-helper only does what it is told. In this case the > > > > > packaging has not specified a package name (with the required > > > > > arch-qualifier) to the dpkg-maintscript-helper call, so it cannot > > > > > infer that you are doing an arch switch. Please read the man page for > > > > > the command for more details. > > > > > > > > The manpage doesn't say anything about upgrades from arch:any to > > > > arch:all, just about Multi-Arch? > > > > Hmm, true, it's all very implicit. I'm fixing the <package> argument > > description for 1.18.x to make all this more clear. > > It should now. > > Thanks, > Guillem -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
