Dear ftpmasters, The latest upload of lintian, 2.5.0~rc3, adds a new 'missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support' tag to warn about improper use of multiarch directories. If a package ships a shared library in a multiarch library directory (/usr/lib/<triplet>), but does not pre-depend on 'multiarch-support', this is an error, as discussed here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00036.html Since we can say with a high degree of confidence that failing to include this pre-depends will (on i386) cause problems on partial upgrades from squeeze, and could even break dist-upgrades entirely, I think it's best if this lintian check be treated as a non-overridable autoreject. In the short term, this would be a fatal error for three packages already in the archive, hwloc, liblouis, and liblouisxml, because these packages install their libraries already to the "draft" multiarch directories that were supported in squeeze (same as the final directories on all archs except for *-i386). And if these packages were to depend on multiarch-support today, they would be uninstallable since eglibc has not yet included this package in an upload. So it is perhaps best to wait until eglibc is transitioned and the maintainer has had a chance to fix these three packages before turning such a check on. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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