Re: Moving library to Multi-Arch
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian@joonet.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to adopt a package which isn't configured for multi-arch yet.
>
> In this package there is a -dev package with to binaries in /usr/bin.
> Is there a way to enable this package for multi-arch? I have read this
> could be a problem.
Install any binaries in /usr/bin in a separate package (e.g.
libfoo-bin or libfoo-utils). You can then safely mark your -dev
package as multi-arch: same.
> For Wheezy all libraries must be multi-arch enabled, right?
> Then all other packages must be removed from testing before freeze, right?
While multi-arch is a wheezy release goal, I've never heard that
libraries not converted to multi-arch will not be accepted into
wheezy. I think it's simply a best-effort approach right now; try to
convert as many packages to multi-arch as possible (especially
libraries with a long string of reverse build dependencies). I don't
think it's realistic to expect every library package to be converted
to multi-arch before the freeze takes place.
Regards,
Vincent
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