Re: Multiarch in Debian unstable
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> It is with excitement and trepidation that I write to you today about the
> status of multiarch support in Debian.
>
> Next steps for maintainers
> ==========================
>
> If you are a maintainer of a shared library package,
we are - the famous libkpathsea5
> you can convert it to
> multiarch today following the instructions in the Debian wiki:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation
>
[...]
>
> Note that the currently documented process only addresses the conversion for
> /usr/lib. Multiarch handling of header files (/usr/include) will require
> more per-package attention, because architecture-dependent and
> architecture-independent header files are currently mixed together in a
> single directory and we probably don't want to move these all to
> /usr/include/$arch. As a result, you may prefer to wait for a complete
> patch that addresses multiarch for both runtime and development use cases
> before uploading.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
Reply to: