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Re: Bug#770266: libgs9: please convert to multiarch



i Till (and others),

Quoting Till Kamppeter (2016-09-17 00:50:45)
> I have now re-applied multi-arch to Ubuntu's Ghostscript package which 
> is nearly identical to Debian's current Ghostscript package. So I 
> attach the debdiff and hope with this you will easily able to add 
> multi-arch functionality to Debian's Ghostscript package.
> 
> I am very grateful if you apply this so that I can keep the delta 
> between Debian's and Ubuntu's Ghostscript packages low.

Thanks for the suggested patch.

I am worried, however, about the following phrase at 
https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation:

> 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.

Did you test that the multi-arch packages work in a multi-arch 
environment?  Looking at the symbols file, it seems headers do vary.


 - Jonas

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