Hi, On 2017-08-21 14:35, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Debian Policy 4.1.0.0 is on its way into unstable. > > The source of the Policy Manual is now in reStructuredText, and the > Sphinx toolchain is used to produce our output formats. This has > enabled us to introduce new ePub and Texinfo output formats, so it's now > more comfortable to read Policy on the beach, and in Emacs. > > Many thanks to Hideki Yamane for writing the rST conversion scripts and > pushing the project forward, and David Bremner for help proofreading. > Russ Allbery and I updated the build system. > > We are seeking volunteers to design a Debian documentation Sphinx > theme. The maintainers of other core pieces of Debian documentation are > also looking to move to Sphinx, so such a theme would see wide use. > > Here are the changes from the previously announced version of Policy > (4.0.1): > 9.1.1 > Only the dynamic linker may install files to /lib64/. How is that supposed to work for the multilib glibc? For example libc6-amd64:i386 installs all its libraries into /lib64. We don't want to install these files in the multiarch path, as they will collide with the libc6:amd64 package. This is actually forbidden by the same paragraph of the policy (and that's a good thing). In the long term we should get ready of multilib now that we have multiarch, but it seems it's not something we are ready to do yet. I have added debian-gcc@lists.debian.org in Cc: as GCC is the main user of the multilib glibc. > No package for a 64 bit architecture may install files to > /usr/lib64/ or any subdirectory. I guess you want to use the same formulation for /lib64, it should only be for 64-bit architecture. That said you should define what is a 64 bit architecture. On x32 (not an official architecture) for example libc6-amd64:x32 installs files in /lib64 and libc6-amd64-dev:x32 installs file in /usr/lib64. Is it considered a 32-bit architecture or a 64-bit architecture? Regards, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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