On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 16:38 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:48:44PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > > The -dev package shouldn't be marked as multiarch; the i386 package is > > not parallel installable with the amd64 package as they both > > ship /usr/include. In general, my understanding is that -dev packages > > should not be multiarched (yet). > > It is ok to incude same files in multiarch coinstallable packages, as long as > they are identical on all archictectures. Think /usr/share/doc/libpciaccess0/copyright > for example. Hence all -dev packages where headers are same on all architectures > are safe for multiarch. Yeah. I was confused by the documentation on wiki.debian.org/MultiArch/Implementation which said "policy forbids -dev packages from being marked as Multi-Arch: same". As you say, that only applies where the contents of headers change across architectures. I've updated that documentation to hopefully be clearer.
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