On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 02:06:36PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> "multiarch-support is inserted into Pre-Depends via ${misc:Pre-Depends}
> by dh_makeshlibs. In order to be able to remove the multiarch-supporti
> package from glibc without updating every package,
> Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} should be used instead."
> (I cannot spot a difference between the one and the other.)
It means the right way to Pre-Depends on multiarch-support is to use
${misc:Pre-Depends} and let debhelper to do the rest.
The "instead" refers to "instead of hardcoding it", which is what this
lintian check is about.
BTW: I asked this paragraph to be rewritten. See Bug#798762 for details.
Thanks.
