Bug#649504: apt: please add multiarch support

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 08:37:57PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:00:55PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:43:08PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > > > It misses a few things:
> > > > 	- Compat level needs to be changed to 9
> > > > 	- Build-depend on debhelper (>= 8.1.3~).
> > > 
> > > Why?  I'm not using any of the facilities in debhelper compat level 9,
> > > because apt installs its libraries by manual .install files rather than
> > > by passing --libdir etc. to configure.
> > 
> > You're using ${misc:Pre-Depends}, that at least requires a versioned
> > debhelper dependency.
> 
> Oh, yes, granted.  (Should I send a new patch or can somebody do the
> obvious?)

Thanks Julian for finding this! I updated the debhelper build-dep my
"convert-to-multiarch-lib-thanks-colin" branch now. I also fixed a
rename of .install to .install.in for the multiarch packages. I will
run some more tests and if everything looks fine I will merge into the
debian-experimental2 branch and upload soon.
 
> > It used to require compat 9, but that was changed sometime later.
> 
> The debhelper git history doesn't seem to back that up.  Commit
> 859b245e93028ff72ae9f19dc5f49af7406e7ac8 introduced misc:Pre-Depends ->
> multiarch-support, and did not require any particular compat level for
> it.

I leave this as it is for now then.

Thanks,
 Michael