Package: rake
Version: 12.3.3-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu focal ubuntu-patch
Dear maintainers,
rake declares itself to be Architecture: all, Multi-Arch: foreign, to allow
it to satisfy dependencies of packages from foreign architectures. However,
it then also depends on ruby without an architecture qualifier, which makes
it impossible to ever install a foreign-architecture ruby interpreter
because e.g. ruby:i386 Depends: ruby2.5:i386 Depends: libruby2.5:i386
Depends: rake:all Depends: ruby:amd64, and while libruby2.5 is
co-installable between architectures, ruby obviously is not.
Cross-installing ruby is currently of interest to us in Ubuntu, because we
in the process of moving the i386 architecture to a compatibility-only layer
on amd64, and therefore we are also moving our autopkgtest infrastructure to
test i386 binaries in a cross-environment. This change should allow ruby to
be cross-installable, and therefore cross-testable. Would you consider
applying this change to the Debian package?
Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/
slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
diff -Nru rake-12.3.3/debian/control rake-12.3.3/debian/control
--- rake-12.3.3/debian/control 2019-09-14 22:59:53.000000000 -0700
+++ rake-12.3.3/debian/control 2020-01-16 15:10:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
Architecture: all
XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions}
Multi-Arch: foreign
-Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter,
+Depends: ruby:any | ruby-interpreter,
${misc:Depends},
${shlibs:Depends}
Recommends: zip
