Package: shadow
Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch
Hi guys,
I've just applied a patch to shadow in Ubuntu to mark the passwd package
'Multi-Arch: foreign'; this indicates, per
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec>, that passwd will satisfy the
dependencies of packages of other architectures when it's installed.
Since passwd 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.
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 http://www.debian.org/
slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control 2010-08-29 21:14:12 +0000
+++ debian/control 2011-02-20 23:57:22 +0000
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libpam-modules, debianutils (>=
2.15.2)
Replaces: manpages-tr (<<1.0.5), manpages-zh (<<1.5.1-1)
+Multi-Arch: foreign
Description: change and administer password and group data
This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to
maintain password and group data.
