Re: Bug#792281: texlive-latex-base: not Multi-Arch: foreign

[Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>]

+++ Johannes Schauer [2015-09-20 09:46 +0200]:
> Quoting Norbert Preining (2015-09-20 08:55:27)
> > > yes, there is /usr/include/<triple>/
> 
> as pointed out earlier, the -dev packages should be M-A:same and not foreign.
> For that, all files shared across architectures must be exactly the same and
> all files that do not have this property (like c-auto.h) must go into an arch
> specific path.
> 
> So c-auto.h should go into a M-A:same libkpathsea-dev, in
> /usr/include/<triplet>/kpathsea/c-auto.h

This info really ought to be on
https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation#Converting_your_package_for_multiarch

but doesn't seem to be.

Clearly it wasn't clear to Norbert what he should be doing about .h
files (because nearly all the info is about libs). We should fix that
(as well as write policy!)

Wookey
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