Hi Keith, On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 01:02:13PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:54:53 +0100, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > Non-text part: multipart/signed > > It is with excitement and trepidation that I write to you today about the > > status of multiarch support in Debian. > Thanks for the update. I'm afraid I haven't been paying close attention, > but a cursory search didn't uncover any description of what I'm supposed > to do with a .udeb that includes a shared library in our glorious > Multi-Arch world of the future. > I'm assuming that any files destined for /usr/lib should land in the > architecture-specific sub-directory, right? The convention I've adopted so far for udeb-building packages has been to install libraries in /usr/lib instead of to /usr/lib/$arch. While /usr/lib/$arch is perfectly findable by ld.so in the installer environment, and while any plugins still need to be installed to the multiarch path if you're doing a single build of the source for both .deb and .udeb, I think it just adds unneeded complexity to use /usr/lib/$arch for shared libraries in udebs. Since this is the third time this question has come up, I guess that makes it a FAQ; added now at <http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation#udeb_handling>. :) BTW, if the package you're asking after happens to be fontconfig, I have a patch here that I'll be sending on shortly. :-) -- 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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