On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Niels Thykier wrote: > I have added Multi-Arch to the list of known binary fields. I assumed > it did not apply to udebs, changes and source packages, please correct > me if I am wrong here.
That's correct. (For dpkg, udeb are no different from deb and thus they are allowed but I don't see udeb making use of multiarch any time soon) > I also included a sanity check of the values of the field (one of the > four listed in your email in all lowercase). I have not added any Great. > sanity (cross-)check for multi-arch vs. content/architecture, so Lintian > will (at least for now) happily accept Architecture: all with > Multi-Arch: foreign (or whatever). I am keeping this bug open to track > the status of such additional checks. The only forbidden combination is Architecture: all / Multi-Arch: same. The rest is allowed. But dpkg already enforces this at build time[1] so it's ok if there's no check in lintian. Cheers, [1] Not yet in sid but in the multi-arch branch that we're working on. -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
