Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Russ Allbery writes ("Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal (was: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match)"):
>> 5. Data files that vary by architecture.  This includes big-endian
>>    vs. little-endian issues.  These are simply incompatible with
>>    multiarch as currently designed, and incompatible with the obvious
>>    variations that I can think of, and will have to either be moved
>>    into arch-qualified directories (with corresponding patches to the
>>    paths from which the libraries load the data) or these packages
>>    can't be made multiarch.
>
> Yes.  Of these, arch-qualifying the path seem to be to be obviously
> the right answer.  Of course eg if the data files just come in big-
> and little-endian, you can qualify the path with only the endianness
> and use refcounting to allow the equal-endianness packages to share.
>
> Ian.

Preferably -data-be:all and -data-le:all packages if they can be build
irespective of the buildds endianness.

MfG
        Goswin