On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 17:38:12 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 17:25:22 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 important
> > Control: reopen -1
> > Control: retitle -1 dpkg-maintscript-helper: document required package 
> > qualification on arch:all <=> arch:any switches
> 
> > On 2015-01-23 17:12, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > This needs to be passed the correct arch-qualified package name (either
> > > :<arch> or :all) for the previous package. Thus closing. But feel free
> > > to reopen if I missed something else.
> > 
> > I think this should be documented ...
> 
> I've already got locally a commit documenting the implicit
> arch-qualification (I think prompted by one of your earlier bug
> reports), but I can make it explicit that the package needs to be
> explicitly arch qualified when switching arch too.
> 
> Hmm, which makes me think, cross-grading will not be supported either
> by those packages… I'll have to ponder about it.

Sorry, actually for non-M-A:same packages the best thing to do is to
just pass the non-arch-qualified package name which will support all
the above cases correctly. I'll try to make that clear in the man
page.

Thanks,
Guillem


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