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@@ -129,21 +129,32 @@ The upstream project home page \fIurl\fP.
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List of tags describing the qualities of the package. The description and
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list of supported tags can be found in the \fB\%debtags\fP package.
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.TP
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-.BR Multi\-Arch: " \fBsame\fP|\fBforeign\fP|\fBallowed\fP|\fBno\fP"
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+.BR Multi\-Arch: " \fBno\fP|\fBsame\fP|\fBforeign\fP|\fBallowed\fP"
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This field is used to indicate how this package should behave on a multi-arch
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-installations. The value \fBsame\fP means that the package is co-installable
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-with itself, but it must not be used to satisfy the dependency of any package
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-of a different architecture from itself.
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-The value \fBforeign\fP means that the package is not co-installable with
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-itself, but should be allowed to satisfy a non-arch-qualified dependency of
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-a package of a different arch from itself (if a dependency has an explicit
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-arch-qualifier then the value \fBforeign\fP is ignored).
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-The value \fBallowed\fP allows reverse-dependencies to indicate in their
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-\fBDepends\fP field that they accept a package from a foreign architecture by
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-qualifying the package name with \fB:any\fP, but has no effect otherwise.
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-The value \fBno\fP is the default when the field is omitted, in which case
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+installations.
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+.RS
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+.TP
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+.B no
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+This value is the default when the field is omitted, in which case
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adding the field with an explicit \fBno\fP value is generally not needed.
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.TP
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+.B same
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+This package is co-installable with itself, but it must not be used to
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+satisfy the dependency of any package of a different architecture from
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+itself.
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+.TP
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+.B foreign
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+This package is not co-installable with itself, but should be allowed to
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+satisfy a non-arch-qualified dependency of a package of a different arch
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+from itself (if a dependency has an explicit arch-qualifier then the
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+value \fBforeign\fP is ignored).
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+.TP
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+.B allowed
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+This allows reverse-dependencies to indicate in their \fBDepends\fP
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+field that they accept this package from a foreign architecture by
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+qualifying the package name with \fB:any\fP, but has no effect otherwise.
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+.RE
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+.TP
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.BR Source: " \fIsource-name\fP [\fB(\fP\fIsource-version\fP\fB)\fP]"
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The name of the source package that this binary package came from, if it is
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different than the name of the package itself.
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