[12:11] <saiarcot895> If there is a arch-dependent  package that depends on an arch-indep package (like foobar-common), should the arch-indep package have Multi-Arch: foreign?
[12:16] <cjwatson> saiarcot895: Maybe; what's important isn't whether it's architecture-independent, but whether it provides architecture-independent interfaces
[12:17] <cjwatson> The answer is usually yes, I just don't want to give a categorical yes because there are edge cases :)  read the spec
[12:19] <saiarcot895> cjwatson: If the package is just a metapackage, then that would be a more-likely yes?
[12:21] <cjwatson> saiarcot895: are you sure you mean metapackage there?
[12:21] <cjwatson> it would be unusual for a -common package to be a metapackage (i.e. contain only dependencies)
[12:22] <saiarcot895> cjwatson: no, these are two separate cases
[12:22] <cjwatson> metapackages - maybe, although usually not much depends on metapackages so it doesn't really make a lot of difference
[12:24] <cjwatson> and normally you won't actually be able to install a metapackage from a foreign architecture since the stuff it depends on will need to be native, so its main benefit would be if you were trying to cross-build something that build-depends on a metapackage
[12:24] <cjwatson> which is pretty rare
[12:24] <saiarcot895> true
[13:37] <Elbrus> is there a way to get to the files in a (failed) build? the gnustep-base package is failing (for different reasons on different archs) but maybe config.log can yield some information for the ppc archs
[14:04] <cjwatson> Elbrus: I'm afraid they're deleted after the build
[14:05] <cjwatson> Elbrus: Make your package cat config.log if configure fails?
[14:05] <cjwatson> e.g. ./configure ... || { cat config.log; exit 1; }
[14:06] <cjwatson> Elbrus: In fact, dh_auto_configure does that automatically, so perhaps you should upgrade to that
[14:07] <cjwatson> Elbrus: I thought I asked not to start the transition until libav was ready?  Fortunately it doesn't seem to have intersected that yet ...
[14:08] <Elbrus> cjwatson: gnustep-base is not part of the transition...
[14:09] <Elbrus> unless I am mistaken...
[14:09] <cjwatson> Ah
[14:09] <Elbrus> it is only gnustep-gui that needs the transition
[14:09] <Elbrus> I thought to get the rest in shape
[14:10] <Elbrus> well, and gnustep-back can only be done after gnustep-gui...
[17:20] <fabio__> hi
[17:21] <fabio__> sorry you can put in the context menu of the option will format a pendrive? and maybe even disassemble? as it was before 14:04?
[17:22] <fabio__> sorry my english..
[17:54] <Elbrus> can somebody tell me why gnustep-base on i386 was suddenly rebuild (and more important, why it succeeded without changes AFAICT)
[17:54] <Elbrus> is somebody working on it?
[17:54] <Elbrus> than I better stop with my proposal...