On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:56:06 -0800 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> There are two main cases for libfoo-dev that I think cover most such
> packages:
>
> 1. The header files are architecture-dependent (definitions of data member
> sizes, for example), in which case they need to be arch-qualified
> anyway if you're going to allow multiple libfoo-dev packages to be
> installed for different architectures.
>
> 2. The header files are architecture-independent, and the only
> architecture-dependent content inside libfoo-dev is the static library.
So the symlink would have to move to the shared library alongside the
other symlink?
-dev:
./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpelaunch.so -> libgpelaunch.so.0.0.0
lib:
./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpelaunch.so.0 -> libgpelaunch.so.0.0.0
That's going to need a Replaces: in the lib against the -dev.
pkg-config files are also Multi-Arch sensitive:
libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
Those need to be in Multi-Arch paths:
./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libgpelaunch.pc
> In this case, if you want to make libfoo-dev multi-arch, I would
> advocate seriously considering just dropping the static library and
> making the -dev package arch: all. I think static libraries are
> increasingly of very questionable utility on a Linux system. But,
I would drop the .a but that doesn't mean I can make the -dev package
Multi-Arch: foreign.
> foo-config binaries, as opposed to pkg-config files, are indeed going to
> continue to be a problem in model 2, but they're a problem anyway, no?
... yes...
> There's no guarantee that the amd64 and i386 version of a package will
> want the same flags, so we really need some way of having a
> multiarch-aware verson of the -config script.
It's not just amd64|i386, Multi-Arch - to me and probably Riku - is
about amd64|armel etc.
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Neil Williams
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