Re: Multiarch in Debian unstable
Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> writes:
> On 7 July 2011 11:44, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> Couldn't you leave the *.so links where they are right now and only
>> move the actual shared libraries? Then packages that are using
>> heimdal-multidev wouldn't need to change anything.
> You mean leave the links in /usr/lib/heimdal/*.so?
> Won't this break the ability to install on multiarch?
> Or is this something we don't have to worry about yet for -dev
> packages anyway (am I bit confused on this point)?
Right, it breaks the ability to install the dev packages multiarch, but
we're in general not supporting multiarch dev packages yet anyway. It
does mean that we'll have a transition for build dependencies if we switch
to supporting multiarch for dev, but my understanding is that that's
generally not ready yet.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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