sed*.deb is missing "Multi-Arch: foreign"

Bug #1010449 reported by Helm
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
sed (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Mark Russell
Precise
Invalid
Undecided
Mark Russell
Quantal
Invalid
Undecided
Mark Russell
Raring
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The sed package of Ubuntu 12.04 misses the line "Multi-Arch: foreign" in the "control"-file.

Without this line it is not possible to build packages depending on sed for the architecture i386 and to install this package on AMD64.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: sed 4.2.1-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 8 14:10:13 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sed
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (42 days ago)

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Helm (thehelm) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in sed (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Mark Russell (marrusl) wrote :

debdiff for quantal

tags: added: quantal
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Mark Russell (marrusl) wrote :

debdiff for precise

I will follow-up and file a debian bug as well.

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Mark Russell (marrusl) wrote :

Replacement debdiff for precise, this time after properly updating the maintainer field.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "sed.quantal.debdiff" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch in the form of a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by Brian Murray. Please contact him regarding any issues with the action taken in this bug report.]

tags: added: patch
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Thanks for the debdiffs! Unfortunately, the precise debdiff has the following problems:
 * because this is a SRU, it needs to target precise-proposed, not precise
 * the version number should be 4.2.1-9ubuntu0.12.04.1 (4.2.1-9 exists in both 11.10 and 12.04) as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure
 * debian/changelog is too terse and doesn't explain why the change is needed

The quantal debdiff has the following problems:
 * because this will need to be an SRU, it needs to target quantal-proposed, not quantal
 * the version number should be 4.2.1-10ubuntu1.1 as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure
 * debian/changelog is too terse and doesn't explain why the change is needed

Can you update the debdiff and resubscribe ubuntu-sponsors? Thanks!

Changed in sed (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in sed (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Mark Russell (marrusl)
Changed in sed (Ubuntu Quantal):
assignee: nobody → Mark Russell (marrusl)
Changed in sed (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in sed (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

sed is an essential package, which means other packages should not depend on it. Without a specific example of a package which needs a versioned dependency on sed and needs to be installed in a multiarch context, we should not make this change.

Changed in sed (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: In Progress → Invalid
Changed in sed (Ubuntu Precise):
status: In Progress → Invalid
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