Bug#689068: libxi-dev is not Multi-Arch compatible
Package: libxi-dev
Version: 2:1.6.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The amd64 version conflicts with the i386 one which makes it impossible to install both. As a result the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXi.so symbolic link is missing so that developping 32bit applications using this library is impossible on a 64bit system.
Furthermore this development package does not seem to be multiarch aware as there is no Multi-Arch field.
My understanding is that as long as there are no hardware-dependent headers there is no obstacle (i.e. no toolchain issue) to tagging the development package as 'Multi-Arch: same'. The symbolic link (and any static libraries) should be no issue as they are already in the architecture-qualified folders.
A good model for this appears to be the libx11-dev package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libxi-dev depends on:
ii libx11-dev 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxext-dev 2:1.3.1-2
ii libxi6 2:1.6.1-1
ii x11proto-input-dev 2.2-1
ii xorg-sgml-doctools 1:1.10-1
libxi-dev recommends no packages.
libxi-dev suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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