Control: reopen -1
Control: found -1 17.2.0-1
On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 at 23:08:26 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> It would not be a correct solution to mark libgl1-mesa-glx:all as
> M-A: foreign, because if it was, this dependency chain would be
> considered to be valid:
>
> steam:i386 -> libgl1-mesa-glx:all -> libgl1:amd64 -> libglx0:amd64 ->
> libglx-mesa0:amd64
>
> and that is clearly not useful, because the i386 binaries in Steam cannot
> load an amd64 libGL. The "i386ness" needs to be propagated all the way
> through the dependency chain.
Thanks for making libgl1-mesa-glx version 17.2.0-1 Architecture: any.
However, it is also Multi-Arch: foreign. As I explained in the quoted text,
M-A: foreign is not appropriate in this case, and will break
cross-architecture packages like steam and wine. It should be M-A: same.
Regards,
smcv
