Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support
Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> writes:
> If it turns out not reasonable to expect the compression results to be
> identical, we should probably look into using dpkg --path-exclude= with
> /usr/share/{doc,man,info}/* when installing foreign-architecture packages.
I believe the only packages that pose a problem are those marked
Multi-Arch: same, allowing multiple architectures of the same package to
be installed, and those packages are almost all shared libraries. (Among
other things, nothing with a non-arch-qualified binary in bin or sbin
directories can be Multi-Arch: same anyway, which rules out most
non-shared-library packages other than things like cross-compilers.)
libraries are already not allowed to ship files in /usr/share/man and
/usr/share/info unless they change with every SONAME bump or we can't have
coinstallability of multiple SONAMEs of a package.
I think the problem is mostly limited to /usr/share/doc; the remaining
corner cases look pretty rare.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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