Bug#539340: debfoster: please add multiarch support

package: debfoster
severity: grave

As requested in irc:

The release goals for Squeeze have just been published [1].  One release
goal is multiarch support, which, according to vorlon, in best case will
already be in Ubuntu 9.10 (Feature freeze: August 27 [2]).

The current multiarch spec [3] includes an extension to package
relationship fields, e.g. "Depends: python:any".  Such dependencies will
lead to packages wrongly detected as orphaned by debfoster unless it
ignores â:anyâ, which is the only one specified by now.

I'm aware that deborphan suffers from the same issue and will upload
a fixed package before Karmic's feature freeze.  Feel free to file a bug
against deborphan if you got too much time.


Carsten

 [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/07/msg00001.html
 [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule
 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec



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