[Bug 250309] [NEW] Please remove embedian-tools source and binary from Intrepid

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Binary package hint: emdebian-tools

Binary Packages:
emdebian-archive-keyring emdebian-rootfs emdebian-tools libemdebian-tools-perl 

Rationale: lack of Ubuntu compatibility with Debian ARM binaries
available to prepare cross-dependencies when cross-building. 

emdebian-tools is tightly integrated into Debian and is, naturally, a
Debian native package. It isn't intended to work on Ubuntu because
Ubuntu does not provide the foreign packages needed for linking when
cross building, those come exclusively from Debian. Ubuntu does not
provide ARM packages and makes changes to the equivalent Debian packages
that are incompatible with the Emdebian changes to those packages.
emdebian-tools also supports a variety of other architectures, not just
ARM so making Ubuntu compatible with emdebian-tools would end up making
Ubuntu back into Debian. To me it seems highly unlikely that cross
versions of Debian packages would install over a Ubuntu base, especially
when those packages are the typical debootstrap selection that have a
variety of changes in Ubuntu.

** Affects: emdebian-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed

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Please remove embedian-tools source and binary from Intrepid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250309
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