Bug#534058: build-depends not available on amd64

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Steve,

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at canonical.com> wrote:
> Package: pixbros
> Version: 0.6.3-2
> Followup-For: Bug #534058
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch
>
> Hello,
>
> There is now a provisional field that you can include in debian/control to
> indicate which architecture an architecture: all package needs to be built
> on: XS-Build-Indep-Architecture.
>
> Since amd64 is now the de facto default architecture used everywhere for
> building packages, and the build-dependencies of pixbros are only available
> on 32-bit architectures, it would be helpful to document this architecture
> requirement in the source package by, e.g., 'XS-Build-Indep-Architecture: i386'.
>
> I've made this change in Ubuntu in order to allow the package to autobuild;
> please consider applying it in Debian as well.

This isn't directly related to pixbros, but last month I applied a
similar patch that you offered for pixfrogger in #534063 which also
added this new 'XS-Build-Indep-Architecture: i386' field. However, it
doesn't look like it works as intended, because while it does allow
the package to be autobuilt, the resulting package gets stuck in
-proposed (in Ubuntu); see LP: #1585058. Do you know what needs to be
done to get pixfrogger et al. to migrate properly?

Regards,
Vincent