Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

Thanks for this excellent post, Goswin.

[Goswin von Brederlow]
> 3) Library package
> ------------------
> 
>   a) Follow Policy 8.2 (MUST directive)
>      No conffiles, no binaries in the library package, no shared files
>      (/usr/share/doc/package/ is excempt and dpkg will handle that).

Policy does not forbid /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/libfoo0.mo (as
it is specific to the soname) - but it sounds like that will break
library multiarch too.  Can we have an exception for this?  It seems
silly to require a libfoo0-l10n package for every localized library.
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