On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:40:54 +0300 "Yuriy M. Kaminskiy"
<yumkam+deb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.2.5
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> On Multi-Arch i386+amd64 system, when I have foo:amd64 (Multi-Arch:
> foreign), I can install useless foo-dbgsym:i386 (and reverse).
>
> I think (at least, 'Multi-arch: foreign' *and* 'Architecture' != all)
> packages should have explicit parent package arch dependency
> Depend: foo:${Arch} (=${binary:Version})
> instead of
> Depend: foo (=${binary:Version})
> Untested patch against debhelper 11.3.5 attached (please review
> carefully, I'm neither M-A nor debhelper expert).
>
> References:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678896
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676653
>
> [...]
Hi,
Thanks for filing the bug.
I believe you are correct that the dependency is too weak. But my
understanding is that "pkg:<arch>" dependencies are poorly supported.
Accordingly, I am not sure it is possible to fix this bug at the moment.
(CC'ing Helmut, whom I hope could remind me if "pkg:<arch>" support is
good enough to rely on it or if he has a different take on the problem).
Thanks,
~Niels
