Re: lintian: what means pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir?

[debian-devel@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher)]

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Olе Streicher wrote:
>> for one of my packages (funtools) I just got a new lintian error:
>> pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir. However, I cannot see a reason why this
>> is issued. The pkgconfig file (/usr/lib/pkgconfig/funtools.pc) is

> If it is architecture-specific, the file should be here instead:
>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/funtools.pc
>
> x86_64-linux-gnu would be the GNU triplet for the architecture.

While the library is architecture specific, the pkgconfig file is not.
And since the  package is not multi-arch yet, one cannot install a
different architecture anyway. So what is the error about then?

Best regards

Ole