Bug#832501: firefox-esr: Please mark as "Multi-Arch: foreign" (or allowed)

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > - or “Multi-Arch: allowed” so that I can use the "firefox-esr:any"
> >   dependency for my case.
> 
> How would that solve your issue? Would you be removing the arm64
> package?

No, I would not remove it from the repository, but at least the manual
installation of the armhf package would not break/remove the metapackage
when it removes the arm64 package from the system.

Another possibility is to enhance the Provides so that we can use
"www-browser:any". Then you would have to put this:
Provides: gnome-www-browser:any, gnome-www-browser, www-browser:any, www-browser

That's because "www-browser:any" does not fulfill the "www-browser"
dependencies of other packages.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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