Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.15-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: crossbu...@debian.org Usertags: cross
lynx-cur is Architecture: any, but on a multiarch system it doesn't matter which architecture you get as long as you can execute its binaries. Six source packages in unstable build-depend on it directly, and 40 more would if they noticed that lynx is a transitional package and replaced it with lynx-cur. Accordingly, it would be helpful to mark lynx-cur Multi-Arch: foreign to avoid blocking cross-builds of those packages. For example, at the moment xterm fails to cross-build in Ubuntu because it tries to run lynx but only has the version for the host architecture (the one being built for) rather than the build architecture (the one being built on). There would be no harm in marking lynx-cur-wrapper and lynx Multi-Arch: foreign as well, even though they're transitional and Architecture: all. On Ubuntu this is in practice unnecessary for Architecture: all packages in cross-build-dependencies due to an apt patch, but that patch hasn't yet been accepted into Debian so it still makes a difference there. In any case it seems good to be explicit. * Mark lynx-cur, lynx-cur-wrapper, and lynx Multi-Arch: foreign. diff -u lynx-cur-2.8.8dev.15/debian/control lynx-cur-2.8.8dev.15/debian/control --- lynx-cur-2.8.8dev.15/debian/control +++ lynx-cur-2.8.8dev.15/debian/control @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Package: lynx-cur Architecture: any +Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Provides: www-browser, news-reader Conflicts: lynx (<< 2.8.7dev9-1.1), lynx-ssl, lynx-cur-wrapper (<< 2.8.8dev.8-2) @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ Package: lynx-cur-wrapper Section: oldlibs Architecture: all +Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: lynx-cur (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends} Description: Wrapper for lynx-cur (transitional package) This is a transitional package and can safely be removed; see the @@ -33,6 +35,7 @@ Package: lynx Section: oldlibs Architecture: all +Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: lynx-cur (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends} Description: Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional package) This is a transitional package and can safely be removed; see the Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org