Bug#723886: Don't flag pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir reports as error

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
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> E: libgmime-2.6-dev: pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmime-2.6.pc

My gut reaction was that the tag shouldn't have been emitted for this 
package at all. If the file was in /usr/share, or the package was 
arch:all, or the package was m-a:same, then yes; but neither was the 
case.

But then I realized that if a .pc file is directly in /usr/lib then 
pkg-config has no way of knowing which architecture this .pc is for.

So I wonder whether Lintian should suggest to move all .pc files to 
/usr/lib/<triplet>/, regardless of whether they hardcode 
architecture-specific paths or not. Contrary to what was said in 
#722609, it should normally be okay to do that even when the rest of the 
library lives directly in /usr/lib/.

See also bug #631275.

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Jakub Wilk