On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:11:02AM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote: > At the moment all gir1.2-* packages in Debian must have multi-arch paths for > the .typelibs files that provide information for gobject introspection. > > In Ubuntu and possibly other derivatives, this step has not been taken yet, > .typelibs files are installed to non-multi-arch locations. > > This makes it quite difficult for downstream maintainers (Ubuntu et al.) to > simply pull over src:packages that provide some gir1.2-* bin:package.
Ubuntu really wants to have this feature (and indeed did some of the work for it); the only reason it wasn't in Ubuntu 14.10 was release management concerns. The current Ubuntu development series has multiarch typelibs, so this is no longer an issue for Ubuntu. I don't think it's worth complicating packages for this. I would expect derivatives to either move forward with gobject-introspection or hold back (or trivially patch) packages that install typelibs. > My proposal for the interim phase (however long that might be) is to provide > symlinks in gir1.2-* packages that provide correct functionalities in Debian > and downstream distros (such as described above), as well. > > /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Caja-2.0.typelib > -> /usr/lib/<triplet>/girepository-1.0/Caja-2.0.typelib > > This surely wouldn't be something worth a freeze exception (I guess), but > once we have jessie in place, is this something others would consider, as > well? Certainly by the time jessie is out this should be a rapidly diminishing concern; and adding those symlinks stands a good chance of breaking the very use cases that multiarch gir1.2-* was trying to fix, because you'd no longer be able to coinstall gir1.2-* from different architectures. Please don't. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141126103124.ga30...@riva.ucam.org
