[pkg-db-devel] Bug#647869: Bug#647869: db-defaults: Please make -dev packages Arch: any, Multi-Arch: same

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Steve,

db-defaults doesn't contain any arch dependent file, so why just not add:

Multi-Arch: foreign

?

O.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at canonical.com> wrote:
> Package: db-defaults
> Version: 5.1.4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch
>
> Hi Ondřej,
>
> Although the libdb-dev package doesn't contain any architecture-dependent
> data, it does represent an architecture-specific interface; packages which
> build-depend on it, for instance, need to wind up with the .a file for the
> corresponding architecture.  As multiarch increasingly enables
> cross-compilation of packages, it's important that packages be able to
> express a build-dependency on the -dev package for a particular
> architecture.  This means that libdb-dev (et al.) should be Architecture:
> any, and Multi-Arch: same.
>
> The attached trivial patch which implements this has been uploaded to
> Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks,
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