Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages
I think this discussion has veered way off track.
glibc is the bottom line. If you cannot install multiple subarchs of
glibc in parallel, then multiarch support is basically broken: you
*cannot* run i386 binaries on a system with an amd64 glibc (without a
chroot, which isn't a solution for users) and the backwards compatibility
of the platform is completely lost. Likewise if you install a i386 glibc
on a user's amd64 machine, they might as well have bought a pentium.
--purge and --reinstall to switch subarchs is just not a valid option for
glibc, on which just about every debian package depends.
Let's not talk as if this was a reasonable thing.
The whole point of having separate /lib, /lib64, /lib32 directories is so
that subarch packages *don't* conflict. it doesn't matter if the so-names
are the same or different, or if there are executable *-config files;
the live in separate directories. debian has broken this to some
degree because every library package puts some files in /usr/share/doc,
and those files conflict.
I don't think *anything* which is not 'Architecture: all' should be
putting *anything* in a 'share' directory. The filesystem specification
explicitly states that this directory is for files which should be shared
between architectures. This was relevant for shared multi-arch NFS roots
far before these recent subarch discussions have arisen.
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