Hi there, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:05:53AM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> The Multiarch specification only covers libraries and does not > specifically deal with include files. > To make multiarch useful for cross-building as well as co-installation of > libraries we need to install headers to /usr/include/<triplet>, which > needs an FHS exception. > Here is a patch to policy to allow that. It could repeat most of the > libraries section above but there seemed little point. I'm happy to > expand it though if we think that would be helpful. > I'm not sure if anything else in policy needs to be adjusted - I > didn't see anything obvious. The only thing I wonder is whether we should go farther yet and make this a policy recommendation rather than just granting permission... but since we're only just now implementing toolchain support for this, I guess that might be premature. > I would file this as a bug against debian-policy but I don't know > whether it should be normative, informative, etc. Advice welcome. Reading the FHS carefully, I see that there is no requirement for headers to be installed *directly* under /usr/include, only that they be installed *somewhere* under this directory. And indeed, many packages create subdirectories under /usr/include already. So maybe it's not actually needed to override the FHS at all for /usr/include, until the time that we want to make this a policy recommendation? I.e., I guess this isn't a "normative" bug because we're not actually changing any rules; and it's not really "informative" either because we're not actually providing much information yet. :) Do you think there is a specific recommendation policy should make right now, or should we defer amending policy until the prelim implementation is farther along in unstable? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110402081428.gc32...@virgil.dodds.net
