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Bug#742756: multi-arch and system-dependent header files



Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:

> <https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation> says:

> << If your -dev package contains headers which vary across architectures
> then it cannot be marked as Multi-Arch: same until a policy decision is
> made about architecture-dependant headers and the toolchain is
> updated. >>

> As far as I understand, the current practice for handling them is to
> move them to /usr/include/<triplet>/ and the C preprocessor will look at
> this directory.

That's correct.

> Probably policy should say something about that.

Agreed.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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