On 6 October 2014 03:29, Barry Warsaw <ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Oct 05, 2014, at 04:28 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote: > >>Would now also be a good time to look through the archive and assess the >>various arch:all packages that do not explicitly declare themselves as >>Multi-Arch:foreign (and thus not installable as dependencies of foreign >>architecture packages?) Is there a reason for any such arch:all package to >>not declare this field at this point? > > If that were the case, why would it not just be automatic? >
Original multi-arch spec did not resolve arch:specific transitive dependencies behind arch:all packages. For example, an arch:all python-foo which depends on python-pycurl needs not just any-architecture python-pycurl but the one that matches the architecture of the interpreter. There were further BOFs, discussions, proposals and solutions to this but I don't think this has been fully implemented for each interpreter yet. But in general, yes, e.g. all fonts, docs, locales, etc. packages should declare M-A:foreign -- Regards, Dimitri. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
