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Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze



[ Just chiming in, but I have not read the whole thread. ]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > 3) Where should dpkg put maintainer scripts and package data?
> > 
> > Suggestions:
> > 
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/i386/libc6.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/i386-libc6.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6/i386.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i386.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/i386/libc/libc6.list and .../info/i386/f/foobar.list
> 
> What about /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.i386.list, as we do for a lot of
> stuff in debian (like debian/ directory of a package).

"libc6.i386" is a valid package name so you can have path name
conflict in theory. /var/lib/dpkg/info/<arch>/libc6.list would be fine for
me /var/lib/dpkg/info/<current-arch>/ could then be a symlink to "." if
needed.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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