Re: More expressive Multi-Arch field

2018-04-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Lumin, On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, Lumin wrote: > Compared to "same"/"foreign", the idea above provides a more > expressive and self-doc'd Multi-Arch field. > > Your opinion? I think that you have no idea of the amount of energy and discussion that went into Multi-Arch. While your proposed wordin

Re: More expressive Multi-Arch field

2018-04-18 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:00:53AM +, Lumin wrote: > [...] > Your opinion? > > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/debmake-doc.en.txt > policy and dev-ref don't explain the Multi-Arch field. No opinion, but the field is documented in deb-control(5), present in the dpkg-de

More expressive Multi-Arch field

2018-04-18 Thread Lumin
Hello folks, I found myself prone to forget what "same" or "foreign" means in the Multi-Arch section. Once and once again I have to lookup docs to fugure out what they stand for. These two words don't explicitly present their meaning. Based on this, I'm writting to put forward an idea for improvin