Bug#680613: libav: Multi-Arch: foreign libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Stepan Golosunov
<stepan at golosunov.pp.ru> wrote:
> Source: libav
> Version: 0.8.3-4
> Severity: important
> User: multiarch-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: multiarch
>
>
> libavutil-extra-51, libavdevice-extra-53, libavfilter-extra-2,
> libpostproc-extra-52, libavformat-extra-53 and libswscale-extra-2 are
> Multi-Arch: foreign transitional packages.
>
> This allows the packages to satisfy dependencies of
> foreign-architecture packages while providing only libraries for
> a native architecture, which is obviously incorrect.
>
> Transitional library packages should be Multi-Arch: same (but that
> would require making them Architecture: any). I guess these packages
> should just be removed, as the only non-transitional versions of the
> packages still existing in Debian are uninstallable 4:0.7.2.1~bpo60+1
> packages in backports and obsolete 4:0.7.2.1+b1 armhf on debports.

Well, AFAIUI this is a good reason to defer this for after wheezy
release. Is there anything we can do about this issue for wheezy?


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard