+++ Russ Allbery [2012-02-08 13:47 -0800]: > Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes: > > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > Oh, good point, I'd forgotten that for multiarch the symlink is > architecture-dependent. So yes, the -dev package is inherently > architecture-dependent. > > > I would drop the .a but that doesn't mean I can make the -dev package > > Multi-Arch: foreign. > > You're right. -dev packages are going to have to be multi-arch: same. > > I think the hardest problem is then going to be the documentation > (including man pages) that are normally now in the -dev package, and any > -config scripts or the like. We already have multiarch path solutions for > header files and for the symlinks, although it requires duplicating the > header files for each architecture.
This part of the thread is getting into the general problem of what exactly the spec and guidelines to packagers should be for multi-arch -dev packages. We have purposely concentrated so far on the library packages in the detailed spec and left the -dev packaging details a bit vague to see exactly what the issues were. (and it is rather less important for -dev packages to actually be co-installable, because you can get by by just installing one or the other for cross- building purposes, although co-installability is definately desireable IMHO). I was thinking of starting a thread on this anyway soon, but as we are now discussing it anyway it might be a good time to go over the various issues. Some of the issues are already clear I think (moving arch-dependent headers into arch-qualified dirs, but leaving the others where they are), but the docs haven't cught up, and there are some trickier bits (like foo-config files where upstream don't want to move to pkg-config, and to what degree it is worthwhile making all -dev packages co-installable), that need some discusion and packages that probably just want splitting up (ones with a lot of binary utilities in). I'll start a new thread with some doc pointers and list of issues. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120209013357.gh14...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
