Package: autopoint Version: 0.18.3.2-2 Severity: wishlist User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer, Is it possible to mark autopoint as Multi-Arch:foreign? Currently autopint has 106 reverse B-D, which are all not cross-buildable, because there autopoint:$HOST is uninstallable. Most notably make-dfsg, xz-utils and util-linux cannot be cross-built due to this issue. There are good reasons to assume that autopoint can indeed be marked Multi-Arch:foreign. * It is an Arch:all package without maintainer scripts, so it is not inherently architecture dependent. * The autopoint executable does not make any explicit use of the architecture set by dpkg. * Building xz-utils and util-linux with unsatisfied B-D (i.e. with autopoint for the wrong architecture) works. * Ubuntu generally treats all Arch:all packages in B-D as M-A:foreign and has not yet experienced problems with this approach. Helmut
diff -Nru gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/changelog gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/changelog --- gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/changelog 2014-06-01 11:05:25.000000000 +0200 +++ gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/changelog 2014-06-28 14:56:35.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +gettext (0.18.3.2-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Mark autopoint as M-A:foreign. Closes: #-1. + + -- Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:56:19 +0200 + gettext (0.18.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low * Updated build profile to use DEB_BUILD_PROFILES. Closes: #750044. diff -Nru gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/control gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/control --- gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/control 2013-05-30 12:00:00.000000000 +0200 +++ gettext-0.18.3.2/debian/control 2014-06-28 14:56:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Architecture: all Depends: xz-utils Replaces: gettext (<= 0.17-11) +Multi-Arch: foreign Description: The autopoint program from GNU gettext The `autopoint' program copies standard gettext infrastructure files into a source package. It extracts from a macro call of the form
