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@@ -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