Bug#469301: lintian: multiarch libraries support
Javier Serrano Polo <jasp00@terra.es> writes:
> Packages are available following
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464796#35
>
> For instance,
> http://62.43.64.122/debian/pool/ia32/ia32-libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7_all.deb
>
> Libraries were initially placed in /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib, sometimes
> in /usr/lib32. This has evolved to include qemu supported archs (still
> working on it).
> shlibs and ldconfig calls are mandatory in biarch case, the trivial
> same-arch case and they'd support any future combination. I guess they
> aren't needed for qemu, but that may change in the future. ldconfig
> should have the chance to decide how to handle those libraries.
Oh. Hm. So replacing the /emul stuff.
Yeah, okay, I guess this makes sense. I'm not sure that this is the
direction Debian is going to go, but I also don't see the harm in making
these changes to lintian.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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