Package: open-iscsi
Version: 2.0.874-7.1
Tags: patch
User: debian-cr...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: ftcbfs
Control: affects -1 + src:libvirt
libvirt fails to cross build from source, because installing its
Build-Depends fails during open-iscsi's postinst. open-iscsi doesn't
like being configured on a system where its executables are not
runnable. Usually this means that one should be using the build
architecture instance. To get there one way is marking open-iscsi
Multi-Arch: foreign. I wasn't sure whether that's reasonable, so I asked
Sam Hartman.
<helmut> [...] I need to figure out whether m-a:foreign makes sense on
[open-iscsi]
<hartmans> helmut: I think so.
<hartmans> helmut: the open-iscsi package contains the tools you'd use to
attach to a disk over the network.
<hartmans> It may well be that open-iscsi needs to be the same architecture as
your kernel, but it's definitely the case that consumers of open-iscsi (other
packages) won't care.
This matches my experience. Therefore, I propose marking it such.
I still don't understand why libvirt has a build dependency on it, but
well.
Helmut
diff --minimal -Nru open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/changelog
open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/changelog
--- open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/changelog 2018-12-12 01:05:19.000000000 +0100
+++ open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/changelog 2019-09-24 20:41:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+open-iscsi (2.0.874-7.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Mark open-iscsi Multi-Arch: foreign. (Closes: #-1)
+
+ -- Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:41:50 +0200
+
open-iscsi (2.0.874-7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer upload
diff --minimal -Nru open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/control
open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/control
--- open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/control 2018-12-12 01:05:19.000000000 +0100
+++ open-iscsi-2.0.874/debian/control 2019-09-24 20:41:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
Package: open-iscsi
Architecture: linux-any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: udev, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Recommends: ${busybox:Recommends}
Pre-Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0
