[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#695229: chromium-inspector: should be 'Multi-Arch: foreign' so that chromium:{arch} is installable
Peter Samuelson
peter at p12n.org
Thu Dec 6 07:13:55 UTC 2012
[Jonathan Nieder]
> Are you sure? Could you send output from trying to install it?
I used interactive aptitude and it can't install chromium:i386 because
it can't find a candidate for the chromium-inspector dependency.
> (I had always thought that in the multi-arch world "Arch: all" meant
> "with the same architecture as its dependencies".)
That's what they want you to think! No, for dependency resolution
purposes, arch:all is equivalent to arch:{dpkg's primary arch}. There
are arcane reasons for this, which I only half-understand so I can't
easily explain. The short version:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Dependencies_involving_Architecture:_all_packages
The workaround is, for an arch:all package that really should be
Multi-Arch: foreign, to explicitly state that it is Multi-Arch:
foreign.
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