Package: python-chardet
Version: 3.0.4-1
Tags: patch
User: helm...@debian.org
Usertags: rebootstrap
Control: affects -1 + src:nagios-plugins-contrib
python-chardet cannot be used to satisfy cross build dependencies (e.g.
for nagios-plugins-contrib via python-debian). In general, Architecture:
all packages can never satisfy cross Build-Depends unless marked
Multi-Arch: foreign. In this case, such a marking is not entirely
correct, but "good enough". Python's byte compilation is architecture
dependent, so python-chardet will only have bytecompiled files for the
main python interpreter and not for foreign embedded interpreters. Still
that's good enough for using python-chardet. That seems like a fair
compromise given that very few packages use an embedded interpreter and
even fewer people install them for foreign architectures.
python-chardet's dependencies are already annotated :any or marked
Multi-Arch: foreign, so that part is fine. The same reasoning holds for
python3-debian. Please consider applying the attached patch.
Helmut
diff --minimal -Nru chardet-3.0.4/debian/changelog
chardet-3.0.4/debian/changelog
--- chardet-3.0.4/debian/changelog 2017-06-18 23:51:08.000000000 +0200
+++ chardet-3.0.4/debian/changelog 2018-12-09 20:25:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+chardet (3.0.4-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Mark all packages Multi-Arch: foreign. (Closes: #-1)
+
+ -- Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> Sun, 09 Dec 2018 20:25:51 +0100
+
chardet (3.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release.
diff --minimal -Nru chardet-3.0.4/debian/control chardet-3.0.4/debian/control
--- chardet-3.0.4/debian/control 2017-06-18 23:51:08.000000000 +0200
+++ chardet-3.0.4/debian/control 2018-12-09 20:25:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
Package: python-chardet
Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends:
${python:Depends},
${misc:Depends},
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@
Package: python3-chardet
Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends:
${python3:Depends},
${misc:Depends},
