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Bug#791485: symbols file: arch-bits=32|64 vs subst



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Hi Mathieu!

On Sunday 05 July 2015 17:51:32 Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Package: pkg-kde-tools
> Version: 0.15.18
> 
> The current status of c++ symbols file in debian is that there is a single
> symbols generator (http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/symbolfiles.html).
> 
> Right now the strategy for merging symbols is using the `subst` keyword,
> however `subst` is a kde-* extension since it has never been integrated in
> dpkg (#533916).
>
> Would it be possible to have a different merging strategy based on
> `arch-bits` instead ? This would allow external kde-* packages to have
> simple management of c++ symbols files (eg.: vtk, openvdb, gdcm, openexr,
> ilmbase...), without adding build-dependencies on  pkg-kde-tools.
> 
> Feel free to re-assign to dpkg, if there is a strong reason for having
> `subst` support over `arch-bits=32|64` in pkg-kde-tools.

For what I understand of your bug report arch-bits it's simply 32 or 64. The 
problem is that it's not as simple as that. There are differences between 
archs that use the same amount of bits.

I'm not closing the bug in case I am missing something, please feel free to 
close this bug if this is not the situation.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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