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Re: dpkg and debhelper patches for lib64 support



On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Joey Hess wrote:

> Package: libfoo1
> Package64: lib64foo1
> Provides: libfoo1-$(architecture)
> Architecture: any
> Description: the foo library
>  The foo library for all your bar needs.
> Description64: the 64 bit foo library
>  The foo library for all your 64 bit bar needs.
>
> Package: libfoo-dev
> Package64: lib64foo-dev
> Architecture: any
> Depends: libfoo1-$(architecture)
> Conflicts: libfoo-dev
> Description: the foo library development files
>  Development files for the foo library.
> Description64: the 64 bit foo library development files
>  Development files for the 64 bit foo library.

No to ${field}, ${field}32, ${field}64.  Yes to ${field}[.${variant}].

This allows for completely abstract package field variants, and targets.  It's
not hard-coded to 32/64, and can be extended for athlon, ppc64, sse, whatever.




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