Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> The unfounded assumption here is that you will always install a
> foreign-arch M-A: same package together with the native-arch version.
> If I install libaudio2:i386 because I want to play a game that's only
> available as a 32-bit binary and has this lib as a dependency, and
> nothing else on my system uses libaudio2, I still expect to get
> /usr/share/libaudio2/AuErrorDB installed.
How is that not a serious policy violation already? AuErrorDB isn't
versioned with the SONAME, so libaudio2 and libaudio3 would not be
coinstallable.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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