Control: tags -1 - wontfix On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:01:52AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I don't want to bloat the Debian archive and pressure the auto-builders > with multiple identical copies, so I won't artificially mark the > package as arch-all.
I think we reached a general agreement that I wouldn't insisit on you generally applying the Multi-Arch interpreter workaround and in return, you would apply it whenever it would be practically relevant. The question at hand effectively is: What is more important? Being able to cross build turtlefmt or saving a few kilobytes of archive space? > What I find the correct goal here is for most possible packages to be > marked arch-all and M-A:foreign, and a stepping stone to get there is > to not do Multi-Arch marking at all until Arch marking is optimal. We also agreed on the goal being that our tooling (dpkg, apt, dose, etc) would become better at expressing this, but in the mean time we use the tools that are available to us. > In short, I won't mark M-A:foreign because that would imply marking as > arch-any, which I disagree with doing. I know you disagree with reason and I can relate to those reasons. Some developers sat down in Brest and devised a vague plan on how improve the situation on the dpkg side, but it's not as easy as it looks. The changes needed to the dpkg database are nontrivial sadly. Until that better solution arrives, please do apply the workaround as you agreed to earlier. Helmut
