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Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released



Hi,

On 2021-08-17 20:35, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I just pushed version 4.6.0.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related
> documents to sid.  Below you will find the significant normative changes
> from the previously announced release of Policy (4.5.1).

[snip]

> 9.1.1
>     No package is allowed to install files in ``/usr/lib64/``. Previously,
>     this prohibition only applied to packages for 64-bit architectures.

This path is used by the multilib 64-bit toolchain on 32-bit
architectures, for instance libc6-amd64:i386, or a few essential
libraries like ncurses.

What kind of fix do you expect on the packages? Is it finally the time
to get rid of multilib and use pure multiarch instead?

Regards,
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
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