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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Mike Hommey wrote:
> One thing that is sadly missing in all this is the notion of whether the
> installed package can be meaningfully be used. That is :any would also
> allow to install firefox-esr:mips, but it won't do you any good...

In general a foreign architecture is only enabled when it's usable and
I don't have any reason to micro-manage which architecture should be
usable... if the user wants firefox-esr:i386 on amd64, then so be it.

So I prefer the ":any" approach.

> Can't you add a dependency like "firefox-esr:armhf [arm64] | firefox-esr"?

That's (roughly) the work-around that I'm using currently. Except that
that armhf is not available at image build time so the native firefox-esr
is always installed.

I just wanted the user to be able to install the armhf one in place of
the default arm64 one without impacting the meta-packages he has
installed.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/