+++ Simon McVittie [2016-05-03 12:25 +0100]: > On Tue, 03 May 2016 at 11:23:40 +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > A mass-bug-filing or mass-patch-attaching to make libraries and development > packages Multi-arch: same would be more in line with how things like this > usually go. There has already been a _lot_ of 'please multiarch this' bugs filed (often with patches), although it's not mostly been does as an explicit mass-filing. -dev packages much less so because often it's harder and the existing spec encouraged people not to bother. > Note that for the subset of development packages that contain > architecture-specific binaries in $PATH (most commonly "foo-config"), it is > not trivial to switch to Multi-arch: same without breaking existing > reverse-dependencies. The foo-config thing is a real pain, which is indeed holding up various packages. We should agree Debian best-practice for these and then start implementing it (and of course put it in policy :-). Debconf session anyone? This is the page that documents 'multiarchification' pratice for packagers: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation put helpful advice there. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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