Re: dpkg and debhelper patches for lib64 support

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Gerhard Tonn wrote:

> >  Package: aalib1
> > +Package64: lib64aalib1
> >  Architecture: any
> >  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
> >  Description: ascii art library
> >
> > I would rather maintain a separate copy of this stanza for the 64 bit
> > package. This would also let me give it a useful description.
> >
>
> Again, I think, this creates a lot of redundancy, since 99 per cent of the
> information of both packages are identical. If we add another copy for the 64
> bit package, it is open how to name the Architecture for the 64 bit as well
> as for the 32 bit variant.

Package: libfoo1
Description: ${description}
 This package contains the 32 bit version of the foo library.

Package: lib64foo1
Description: ${description}
 This package contains the 64 bit version of the foo library.