On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 22:50 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Package: module-init-tools > Version: 3.16-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise > > Hi, > > It would be useful for module-init-tools to be marked "Multi-Arch: > foreign", to indicate that it can satisfy dependencies of packages of > other architectures. Although Debian's dpkg doesn't yet do anything > special with this, it's safe to add this tag in advance of package > manager support. > > In Ubuntu, this is an early step in being able to crossgrade from i386 > to amd64, because we don't have an -amd64 kernel flavour on i386 and (of > course) our kernel packages depend on module-init-tools. While Debian > does have an -amd64 flavour on i386, it still wouldn't hurt to add this > tag. [...]
I would also like to remove it from Debian in wheezy or in wheezy+1. So
please do make this change as soon as possible.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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