Hi Steve, db-defaults doesn't contain any arch dependent file, so why just not add:
Multi-Arch: foreign ? O. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@canonical.com> wrote: > Package: db-defaults > Version: 5.1.4 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch > > Hi Ondřej, > > Although the libdb-dev package doesn't contain any architecture-dependent > data, it does represent an architecture-specific interface; packages which > build-depend on it, for instance, need to wind up with the .a file for the > corresponding architecture. As multiarch increasingly enables > cross-compilation of packages, it's important that packages be able to > express a build-dependency on the -dev package for a particular > architecture. This means that libdb-dev (et al.) should be Architecture: > any, and Multi-Arch: same. > > The attached trivial patch which implements this has been uploaded to > Ubuntu. > > Thanks, > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-db-devel mailing list > pkg-db-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-db-devel -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
