On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 23:27:53 +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > 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. > The manpages don't seem to be always the same across archs. Might depend on the version of the tools they're built with. Cheers, Julien
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