Package: openstack-pkg-tools Version: 81 User: [email protected] Usertags: rebootstrap Control: affects -1 src:ntpstat src:openvswitch src:python-posix-ipc src:python-rjsmin src:python-wrapt src:subunit src:websockify
The affected packages cannot satisfy their cross Build-Depends, because their (transitive) dependency on openstack-pkg-tools is not satisfiable. In general, Architecture: all packages can never satisfy cross Build-Depends unless marked Multi-Arch: foreign. In this case, it is very unclear whether such a marking is correct, because openstack-pkg-tools composes so much functionality into a single package. It may never be safe to mark it Multi-Arch: foreign, so making packages cross buildable presently involves removing it from Build-Depends, which runs counter to its goal. We should seek a way to avoid that route. One aspect is that openstack-pkg-tools kinda is a metapackage as it exposes its dependencies to consumers. Thus each dependency needs to be looked at individually (but that's not enough): * autopkgtest is not Multi-Arch: foreign. I kinda doubt that packages use autopkgtest to run tests during build, so this dependency is more of a convenience dependency. Would it be possible to either demote it to Recommends (effectively removing it from package builds) or adding a openstack-pkg-dev-tools to be installed for development, which is not supposed to be used in Build-Depends? * gettext is Multi-Arch: foreign. * libxml-xpath-perl is not Multi-Arch: foreign and cannot become Multi-Arch: foreign due to the multiarch interpreter problem. I don't understand why openstack-pkg-tools needs it. * madison-lite is not Multi-Arch: foreign, but the tool primarily exists for checking archive package metadata, i.e. it requires a network connection. That's not something one can rely on during package builds. Can it be demoted to Recommends or split out? * po-debconf is Multi-Arch: foreign. * pristine-tar is not Multi-Arch: foreign, but maybe could be. Given the above, I ask you to reduce the scope of openstack-pkg-tools. Please split it into two packages: * One for use in Build-Depends. * Another for developer tools that are not required for building packages. After such a split has been performed, we can reevaluate the possibility of marking openstack-pkg-tools Multi-Arch: foreign. Please close this bug once openstack-pkg-tools is split or its dependencies have been reduced (e.g. using Recommends). Helmut
