[Pkg-netfilter-devel] Bug#776041: Please make iptables Multi-Arch: foreign

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

Control: tags -1 - pending
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:11:31 +0200 Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at iki.fi> wrote:
> Package: iptables
> Version: 1.4.21-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: multiarch-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: multiarch
>
> To allow cross-arch installations of packages depending on iptables,
> a foreign stanza is needed. This was one requirement to install
> armhf docker.io packages to a arm64 system.
>
> Riku
>

Hi Riku,

your patch trigger this lintian error:

E: iptables: shlib-in-multi-arch-foreign-package lib/libiptc.so.0.0.0
N:
N:    The package is marked as Multi-Arch: foreign, but it includes a shared
N:    library in a public library directory.
N:
N:    Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec for details.
N:
N:    Severity: serious, Certainty: certain
N:
N:    Check: shared-libs, Type: binary, udeb
N:

Please, check how can we solve it.

I'm willing to improve the iptables package with multi-arch support,
but we have to do it taking quality into account.

best regards.