[Bug 905055] Re: Package needs to be Multi-Arch enabled so Multi-Arch packages can depend on it

[Steve Langasek]

It's correct for each of cabextract, xfonts-utils, and defoma to be
Multi-Arch: foreign, because each provides an architecture-independent
executable interface.  But there's no need for them to be tagged in
order to fix this issue - *only* the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package
needs to be tagged Multi-Arch: foreign, because it's the only package
which is a direct dependency of the foreign-architecture package.

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Title:
  Package needs to be Multi-Arch enabled so Multi-Arch packages can
  depend on it

Status in “cabextract” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “defoma” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “xfonts-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was packaging a commercial application for the App store that
  depended on a font in this package.  The package was binary, i386
  only, and writing a dependency would cause apt to fail as ttf-
  mscorefonts-installer, while arch: all, is not multi-arch enabled and
  thus was treated as i386 and uninstallable on amd64.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.3ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Dec 15 10:52:01 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (93 days ago)

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