Bug#693400: please allow multiarch for grub-ieee1275-bin

2012-11-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/16/2012 06:47 PM, Colin Watson wrote: No - Multi-Arch: foreign means that you get to use the i386 binary to satisfy dependencies of a powerpc binary, and doesn't imply coinstallation of the same package on multiple architectures. You're thinking of Multi-Arch: same. It's true, i get

Bug#693400: please allow multiarch for grub-ieee1275-bin

2012-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:06:35PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I think all that's needed to make grub-ieee1275-bin multiarch is to move the Depends: powerpc-ibm-utils, powerpc-utils, bc to Recommends: for non-powerpc architectures. Do we actually need bc in there on any architecture,

Bug#693400: please allow multiarch for grub-ieee1275-bin

2012-11-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/16/2012 01:39 PM, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:06:35PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I think all that's needed to make grub-ieee1275-bin multiarch is to move the Depends: powerpc-ibm-utils, powerpc-utils, bc to Recommends: for non-powerpc architectures. Do we

Bug#693400: please allow multiarch for grub-ieee1275-bin

2012-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 04:05:43PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 11/16/2012 01:39 PM, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:06:35PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I think all that's needed to make grub-ieee1275-bin multiarch is to move the Depends: powerpc-ibm-utils,

Bug#693400: please allow multiarch for grub-ieee1275-bin

2012-11-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: grub-ieee1275-bin Version: 2.00-7 I would like to be able to install grub's powerpc-ieee1275 to a USB stick from a non-powerpc platform. I'm working from i386. I think this ought to be possible using debian's multiarch capabilities, especially since grub-ieee1275-bin just installs a