Please mark pdksh as "Multi-arch: foreign"

[Mark Russell]

[Impact]
Marking pdksh "Multi-arch: foreign" will allow 32-bit packages to depend on pdksh and install successfully on 64-bit releases of Ubuntu from 11.04 onward.

Some 3rd party apps, such as Lotus Sametime, use ksh scripts.

[Test Case]
Build and install i386 packages on amd64 and attempt to depend on pdksh.

[Regression Potential]
Minimal as this packaging change only means that pulling in the 64-bit pdksh can satisfy the dependency of a 32-bit application.

Can we make this change for precise?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mark Russell (marrusl)]

This was already done in quantal. Here is a debdiff for precise.

[Mark Russell (marrusl)]

(fixed capitalization)

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[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Mark, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pdksh into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdksh/5.2.14-26ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Cláudio Carvalho (clavalho)]

The package in precise-proposed works for me.
I built a i386 test package on amd64 and put it to depend on pdksh. If I attempt to install the test package, so the pdksh amd64 is installed. Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pdksh - 5.2.14-26ubuntu1

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pdksh (5.2.14-26ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Mark pdksh Multi-Arch: foreign (LP: #1054343)
 -- Mark Russell <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:53:15 -0400

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