Bug#827278: libsgmls-perl: iputils failure to crossbuild due to dependency on sgmlspl

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Tue Jun 14 18:16:07 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 09:48:09AM -0500, Dave Chiluk wrote:
> Package: libsgmls-perl
> Version: 1.03ii-35
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> Justification: fails to build from source
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch

> Cross-building of iputils fails to build because of inability to
> retrieve arch specific sgmlspl.
> 
> Setting Multi-Arch: allowed for sgmlspl resolves this issue.

The only interface sgmlspl offers is a /usr/bin/perl script, so marking
it Multi-Arch: foreign would seem more appropriate to me?
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org




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