Re: multiarch policy documentation is ready (Re: Bug#1063605: debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian)

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:53:12 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
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Russ Allbery [11/Feb  9:07am -08] wrote:
> Holger Levsen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> which was this: while it's true that policy hasn't properly been documenting
>> multiarch since 2014 (sigh..), since 2025 there's is now a patch written
>> by Jochen, Josch, Helmut & myself in #749826 which has been reviewed by Sean
>> once and which after addressing those remarks now awaits a another review by
>> Sean.
>
>> So, soon (tm!) multiarch will be documented in policy! \o/
>
> Oh, thank you so much for saying! I will take a look at this as soon as I
> have a few free moments. I've been working through the bug backlog but in
> an order that would have caused me to take some time to get there.

I'm still planning to do those re-reviews (multiarch and build
profiles), but I don't mind if you want to take them over, of course.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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