Re: Build and run-time triplets

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:41:56PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > I got all of the triplets working, but was then stymied when I tried
> > to specify Multi-Arch: same in the control file.  I got a lintian
> > warning: multi-arch-same-package-calls-pycompile
> > It seems that since the pybuild system (via dh_python3) adds a
> > py3compile command to the postinst of the package, then I can't safely
> > use Multi-Arch: same.
> > 
> > I don't know if this is the case for all python3 Arch: any packages
> > with compiled extensions;
> I think the tag desciption has a good step-by-step explanation why does
> the tag exists.
> But your package is not a "package with compiled extensions", is it?

Yes, it's got compiled extensions (Cython) in addition to this
non-Python .so library file.

> > are they all effectively Multi-Arch: no?  Is this worth thinking about
> > in the longer term?
> What do you propose?

I think the fix to bug #812228 might have done the job nicely ;-)

Best wishes,

   Julian