Russ Allbery:
I think it's worth considering whether we should just dump the
> Lintian checks for arch-independent files in /usr/lib, and make a > corresponding change to Policy that says that packages are free to > put arch-independent files there.It would as a side-effect make you better aligned with the systemd Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. (-:
* http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html"Static, private vendor data that is compatible with all architectures (though not necessarily architecture-independent)."