Quoting Till Kamppeter (2014-01-08 13:04:06) > On 01/08/2014 12:59 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Till Kamppeter (2014-01-08 12:42:04) >>> OdyX, you have split foo2zjs into printer-driver-foo2zjs and >>> printer-driver-foo2zjs-common telling that you want all >>> arch-independent files being shared across architectures. This saves >>> some disk space in the build server infrastructure (there should be >>> plenty of disk space) and on the user side it is probably without >>> any benefit as nowadays no one shares a system disk partition >>> between several computers (which can be of different architectures). >>> So for me it looks like that it makes building and updating more >>> complicated without real benefit. Or what are the real advantages? >> >> Just guessing here, but I believe that if aiming for multiarch >> compatibility, arch-independent parts need to be shipped as a >> separate package (or code patched to look in unusual locations for >> its data files. >> > > Do we need multi-arch for packages which are not a library? Good question. I don't, personally, at the moment, need it. Eventually ideally perhaps we as the universal operating system would like all parts of Debian be multi-arch. I guess the better question is if we allow it - i.e. if there are _any_ use cases even if not strongly needed. @OdyX: I was only trying to help here - your input is still needed to shed some light on the actual action of yours. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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