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

[Scott Ritchie]

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)

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Note that this package depends on wget, cabextract, xfonts-utils, defoma, and debconf. Debconf and wget are already M-A: foreign, however cabextract, xfonts-utils, and defoma are not (in Oneiric)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

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.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Actually, these other packages may not need to be M-A: foreign, only the immediate dependency needs to be, so we can reduce this bug to just ttf-mscorefonts-installer (and related packages that may be immediate dependencies of multiarch packages)

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

I'm reopening the cabextract task because winetricks, playonlinux, and some other non-arch-specific scripts depend on it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package msttcorefonts - 3.4ubuntu1

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msttcorefonts (3.4ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian testing with help of MOM. Remaining changes:
    - Ubuntu preinst and postrm scripts have deltas
  * debian/control: Add Multi-Arch: foreign (LP: #905055)
 -- Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:47:02 -0800

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

This is still a reasonable bug for defoma and xfonts-utils, even though there is no extant package depending on it yet, so I'm marking it low priority.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This bug was fixed in the package cabextract - 1.4-4

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cabextract (1.4-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Mark as multi-arch foreign: Closes: #700683

 -- Eric Sharkey <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:22:35 -0500

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm closing the defoma task since defoma was removed from Debian last year since it's obsolete and will probably be removed from Ubuntu soon.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

 xfonts-utils (1:7.7~1) unstable; urgency=low

   * font-util 1.3.0
   * mkfontdir 1.0.7
   * mkfontscale 1.1.0
   * Drop dh_testroot from debian/rules clean.
   * Move fontutil.pc to /usr/share/pkgconfig.
   * Mark xfonts-utils Multi-arch: foreign.