An alternative is to have a multiarch library, and a non-multiarch development package with the config script. to me it makes no real sense to split the config file into a separate package, specially because 1) it is in the same dev package on other linux distros 2) it was in the same dev package on libpng12 3) it serves the same purpose. people expects to be able to build stuff depending on png without having to know that there is something else other than a libpng-dev package. It makes little sense to me. So, my todo is: rename libpng16-tools to libpng-tools, merge libpng16-devtools with libpng-dev. If and when poeple will want to have a multiarch development package, we will split, patch and start a new transition against ~50 packages not against ~500. We are almost ready, there is no need to overcomplicate stuff here. So, I put my proposed package (debdiff attached) in deferred/5. Note: it will require a new trip in new queue. This way we should avoid issues with the current status quo of the rebuild testing. I hope to have found a better solution wrt this transition. thanks, Gianfranco
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