debhelper support for /lib64 and /usr/lib64 locations on 64 bit platforms
Package: debhelper
Version: 4.1.45
Severity: wishlist
As discussed severel times on debian-devel, see for example
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg00700.html ,
x86-64, s390x and possibly other 64 bit architectures need to install their
libraries to /lib64 and /usr/lib64 instead of /lib and /usr/lib. This makes
it possible to install unchanged packages of the corresponding 32 bit
architecture, i386 for x86-64 and s390 for s390x, concurrently with the 64
bit packages.
In order to support this by debhelper, we need basically a means to specify
variables in .files, .dirs, .links and .install files. See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x86-64/2003/debian-x86-64-200306/msg00005.html
for a sample implementation.
Regards,
Gerhard
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