* Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>, 2015-08-20, 12:39:
A -dev package may contain an architecture dependent -config executable, that cannot be included in a M-A: same package.
This particular package doesn't contain any executables, AFAICS.
The same goes for headers which vary across architectures.
It is now permitted to put architecture-dependent headers files in /usr/include/<triplet>, so this is no longer show-stopper.
If there are no architecture dependent files in a -dev package M-A: same should be fine.isn't the so link an architecture dependent file? the symlink is to usr/lib/triplet
If the symlink lives in architecture-specific directory, it's not an issue.
-- Jakub Wilk