Bug#639348: libxtst: multiarch

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 02:51:19 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> 
> Package: libxtst
> Version: 2:1.2.0-3
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> Someone on IRC asked how to use libxtst6 as multi-arch.
> I had a quick look and found it wasn't very hard to convert it.
> I do not know quite why he needed this - something about "Xilinx ISE",
> whatever that is.  But in the spirit of not wasting work, here is my
> patch.
> 
Thanks!

> The extra dh_strip line in debian/rules are needed so that
> --dbg-package does _not_ pick up the udeb, because the udeb
> copy of the library is not under the multiarch path.
> 
Right.  I think I'll change it to:
        dh_strip -p$(PACKAGE) --dbg-package=$(PACKAGE)-dbg
        dh_strip -N$(PACKAGE)
although right now it doesn't make a difference (the -dev package
doesn't contain any ELF files).

> I'm not sure whether it is safe or reasonable to specify
> Multi-Arch: same for the -dev package.

I think it is.  The files in non-multiarch paths (manpages and headers)
are the same across architectures.

Cheers,
Julien