python-apt needs to be multiarched

what's the use case for this?

I think what you do want to have is an python-apt:allowed package.

The use case is a foreign-arch package that ships a python script which uses python-apt. You don't want to pull in the foreign-arch version of python-apt (and python), you want the dep to be satisfied by the version of python already installed plus the corresponding python-apt package.

So I think Multi-Arch: allowed is correct here.

Matthias, can you take care of this?

for precise and quantal, have a minimal solution to only make python{,3,2.7,3.2}{,-minimal} Multi-Arch: allowed.

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.8.8ubuntu6

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python-apt (0.8.8ubuntu6) raring; urgency=low

  * Make python{,3}-apt{,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:57:45 +0100

for the uploads:

 - first build python2.7 and python3.2 on all archs
 - then build the defaults packages. make sure that the uploads for all archs are accepted
   in the same publisher run.
 - then upload the python-apt packages

There are currently two python2.7 uploads for precise-proposed, this one, and the one fixing bug 1088771 . Do you want to roll these two into one update?

The python3-defaults upload changes some (= ${binary:Version}) dependencies to (>= ${binary:Version}). This change isn't obviously related to multiarching; is it intentional?

yes. please think about the all on any deps.

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

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I have run through the test case that I've added to the bug description. I've also checked the results on <https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise/view/Upgrade%20Testing%20Dashboard/> and <https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Quantal/view/Upgrade%20Testing%20Dashboard> to make sure there aren't any upgrade failures related to the python package changes (since in earlier versions of the SRUs, there had been). Everything looks good - marking verification-done.

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.8.3ubuntu7.1

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python-apt (0.8.3ubuntu7.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python{,3}-apt{,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:14:45 +0100

Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python-defaults into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-defaults/2.7.3-0ubuntu2.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

the latest python-defaults upload only changed the Replaces, no need for re-verification.

This bug was fixed in the package python3.2 - 3.2.3-0ubuntu3.3

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python3.2 (3.2.3-0ubuntu3.3) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python3.2{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
  * distutils: Append the abiflags to the python include dir (avoids
    extensions installing over a symlink).
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:55:09 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package python3-defaults - 3.2.3-0ubuntu1.2

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python3-defaults (3.2.3-0ubuntu1.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Move py3versions back to python3-minimal. LP: #1167183.

python3-defaults (3.2.3-0ubuntu1.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python3{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
  * As a prerequisite, build dependency packages as architecture
    dependent packages.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:50:15 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package python3.2 - 3.2.3-6ubuntu3.2

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python3.2 (3.2.3-6ubuntu3.2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python3.2{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
  * distutils: Append the abiflags to the python include dir (avoids
    extensions installing over a symlink).
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:08:16 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package python3-defaults - 3.2.3-5ubuntu1.2

---------------
python3-defaults (3.2.3-5ubuntu1.2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Move py3versions back to python3-minimal. LP: #1167183.

python3-defaults (3.2.3-5ubuntu1.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python3{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
  * As a prerequisite, build dependency packages as architecture
    dependent packages.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:26:42 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package python-defaults - 2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1

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python-defaults (2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:33:41 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.8.7ubuntu4.1

---------------
python-apt (0.8.7ubuntu4.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python{,3}-apt{,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:22:41 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.3-5ubuntu4.1

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python2.7 (2.7.3-5ubuntu4.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python2.7{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:35:50 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.3-0ubuntu3.2

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python2.7 (2.7.3-0ubuntu3.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport fix for issue #14308. Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is
    in the threading module's active list after a fork(). LP: #1100343.
  * Remove dangling symlink in pkgconfig. LP: #1088771.
  * Make python2.7{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:40:39 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package python-defaults - 2.7.3-0ubuntu2.2

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python-defaults (2.7.3-0ubuntu2.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix the python-dev Replaces to prevent installation regression.
    LP: #1167177

python-defaults (2.7.3-0ubuntu2.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make python{,-minimal,-dbg} Multi-Arch: allowed. LP: #1130709.
  * Provide python2.pc symlinks. LP: #1088771.
 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:06:09 -0400