Steve Langasek wrote: > I've just applied a patch to debconf in Ubuntu to mark the debconf package > 'Multi-Arch: foreign'; this indicates, per > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec>, that debconf will satisfy the > dependencies of packages of other architectures when it's installed. > > Since debconf is rather low in the stack, and it's perfectly safe to tag > packages as Multi-Arch: foreign in advance of a package manager that's > capable of understanding this (which should be along soon in any case), I > request that this be set on the package in Debian as well.
I'm surprised that this is needed for a package that is already Architecture: all Ah, I see, it's due to "Pre-multiarch, architecture-dependent packages may depend on Architecture: all packages and assume that the transitive dependencies will be resolved using packages of the same architecture or other packages that are Architecture: all. To avoid breaking this assumption, Architecture: all packages will, at least initially, be treated as equivalent to packages of the native architecture for all dependency resolution." -- see shy jo
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