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Re: dpkg and debhelper patches for lib64 support



At Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:26:17 +0200,
Gerhard Tonn wrote:
> I have made some changes to dpkg and debhelper in order to support  
> /lib64 and /usr/lib64 locations on 64 bit platforms. You find the patches at 
> people.debian.org/~gt/lib64 along with patches for a bunch of other packages 
> using the dpkg and debhelper extensions. Some of the patches have been used 
> already by Arnd Bergmann for the x86-64 port. Any feedback is welcome.

Excellent.

> Assumptions:
> ------------
> Development packages for 32 and 64 bit platforms are not installable 
> concurrently.

I don't still know about it, but 

  * Is this assumption practical?
  * Should development packages be capable to handle both 32/64 bit at
    the same?
  * Are there any example development packages which need to split
    between for 32 and for 64 bit?

Regards,
-- gotom



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