Bug#872054: gcc-multilib: installation of gcc-X-multilib should not yield the installation of the default gcc
On 2017-08-14 18:21:07 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2017-08-13 23:00, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Something needs to be done to avoid that. Shouldn't the
> > /usr/include/asm symbolic link be provided either by libc6-dev-i386
> > or by the individual gcc-X-multilib packages, for instance? In such a
> > case, libc6-dev-i386 would no longer need to recommend gcc-multilib.
>
> First of all I believe moving this symlink to libc6-dev-i386 is the
> wrong thing to do, while libc6 needs this symlink you also need it for
> building packages with another libc.
I don't think this is a problem since, e.g. for amd64, the
gcc-X-multilib packages depend on libc6-dev-i386, so that
you'll get the symlink.
> In addition this also won't work for architectures with triarch support,
> as it would mean for example that both libc6-dev-i386 and libc6-dev-x32
> need to provide the symlink. This would make them not coinstallable
> anymore.
Do you mean that dpkg doesn't support coinstallation when the
symlink is the *same*?
For instance, with amd64, the symlink is:
/usr/include/asm -> x86_64-linux-gnu/asm
thus both libc6-dev-i386:amd64 and libc6-dev-x32:amd64 would have
this same symlink.
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