On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 06:01:26AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
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+Description: GNU C Library: n32 Shared libraries for MIPS
+ This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the
+ standard math library, as well as many others. This is the n32 version
+ of the library, meant for MIPS systems.
+
+Package: libc6-dev-mipsn32
+Architecture: mips mipsel
+Section: libdevel
+Priority: standard
+Provides: libn32c-dev
What about providing lib32c-dev instead? It seems more "standard"
compared to the other ports, and it also have the advantage for other
biarch packages to use a unique name across all the architectures.
Note also that the other architectures does not encode the ABI name in
32-bit or 64-bit packages.
Other architectures have a simple separation between 32 and 64 bit. For
Mips there's often some confusion what n32 qualifies for (embedded
people often call it 64 bit without further qualification). That's why
I recommended to use the ABI names instead. This also avoids the heavily
overloaded "mips32" and "mips64" terms.