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| author | Patrick McDermott <pehjota> | 2020-06-21 10:41:25 (EDT) |
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| committer | Patrick McDermott <pehjota> | 2020-06-21 10:41:25 (EDT) |
| commit | 27600827c80fc1900f10b13916d206d396550f28 (patch) | |
| tree | 56697904aaa37e587d98144b6657866c78123161 | |
| parent | b6649df73775a49cc38019630fa710101b991446 (diff) | |
dev/multiarch: No one has to type ":<arch>", yay!
| -rw-r--r-- | dev/multiarch.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/dev/multiarch.mdwn b/dev/multiarch.mdwn index 2b95de2..f82539e 100644 --- a/dev/multiarch.mdwn +++ b/dev/multiarch.mdwn @@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ libdev` packages as build dependencies could be automatically installed for the host architecture by prokit supplying an appropriate `-a` option, allowing maintainers to continue listing unqualified package names in `Build-Depends` instead of having to add `-${Host-Arch}` to every `Section: libdev` package in -`Build-Depends`. +`Build-Depends`. Therefore, only `Section: lib` packages need to have +architecture-qualified names (due to the coinstallability issue described +above), and neither users nor maintainers are expected to manually install or +list as dependencies such architecture-qualified packages. [wuc-mas-arch-indep-files]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Architecture-independent_files_in_multiarch_packages [wuc-mas-control-fields]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Binary_package_control_fields |