On 2011-10-28 10:09 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> That's true. Actually the FTBFS is not my biggest concern, packages
>> with broken dependencies are a worse problem and are just as likely to
>> result.
>
> Well, if it finds a system library with a shlibs/symbols file, the
> generated dependency can't really be wrong.
It can, because some symbols may be missing from the system library that
are present in the just-built one.
> When people put debian/compat 9, they want all the features of the new
> mode (including multiarch support) and they don't expect the feature to be
> enabled only in some cases. Note that debhelper build-depends on dpkg-dev
> (>= 1.16.0) and apparently (from what you say) the backport changes that
> requirement, it's not a very good backport.
I think it would be better to backport dpkg-dev and make
dpkg-architecture report the empty string as $DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH, but
nobody has done that yet (and I'm not volunteering).
Cheers,
Sven
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