Subject: Bug#794575: support testing foreign arch installation

From: Andreas Beckmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 01:10:48 +0200

On 2015-08-05 00:52, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Dienstag, 4. August 2015, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>> As you say this behaviour is buggy, I am raising the severity
>> accordingly.
> 
> supporting multi-arch is still wishlist…

there are two bugs here ...

* normal/important: installation fails but test passes for multiarch
argument libfoo:foreign

* wishlist: --foreign-architecture

that should be handled separately
(since adding the new flag does not fix the unexpected pass, it just
allows to do the intended thing in a more controlled manner)

Andreas