Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Goswin von Brederlow] > Except is gimp the only way to use gimp plugins? Isn't there another app > foo that also uses libgimp and its plugins? Then you could have > gimp:amd64, foo:i386. Actually ... if I remember correctly, gimp plugins are executables, not libraries, so really they should be M

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson writes: > [Ian Jackson] >> If you install on i386 your 2 binaries and libc6, you /do/ need the >> i386 libfakeroot. Otherwise if you say "fakeroot " it >> won't work, no matter that /usr/bin/fakeroot is amd64. > > libfakeroot is something of a special case, indeed. As a hack to

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): >> As you said these are usualy plugins that nothing depends on. So this >> wouldn't help much. Also if there is a dependency than the rules for >> m-a:same sho

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ian Jackson] > If you install on i386 your 2 binaries and libc6, you /do/ need the > i386 libfakeroot. Otherwise if you say "fakeroot " it > won't work, no matter that /usr/bin/fakeroot is amd64. libfakeroot is something of a special case, indeed. As a hack to my proposal, perhaps it can be 'M

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-14 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 22:10, Ian Jackson wrote: > Aron Xu : >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 00:09, Ian Jackson >> wrote: >> > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): >> >> As you said these are usualy plugins that nothin

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Peter Samuelson writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): > [Ian Jackson] > > Where should this fact be declared ? Is it a property of a package > > that it makes sense to install it only on all configured architectures > > or none ? Or is it a prop

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Aron Xu : > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 00:09, Ian Jackson > wrote: > > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): > >> As you said these are usualy plugins that nothing depends on. So this > >> wouldn't help much. Also if th

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Peter Samuelson [120214 06:32]: > Package: libpam-fprint > Multi-Arch: same-as libpam0g > > Package: gimp-texturize > Multi-Arch: same-as libgimp2.0 > > Package: libsasl2-modules > Multi-Arch: same-as libsasl2-2 Would this also work with nss plugins? That might be a bit more complicated as it w

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ian Jackson] > Where should this fact be declared ? Is it a property of a package > that it makes sense to install it only on all configured architectures > or none ? Or is it a property of the dependency from the depending > package ? Neither. If I've configured i386 on an amd64 system just

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 00:09, Ian Jackson wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): >> As you said these are usualy plugins that nothing depends on. So this >> wouldn't help much. Also if there is a dependency than the r

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): > As you said these are usualy plugins that nothing depends on. So this > wouldn't help much. Also if there is a dependency than the rules for > m-a:same should be sufficient. If the package is somet

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with > multiarch support"): >> Steve Langasek writes: >> > the [pam] module packages should be installed >> > for all archs, not just a subset[1]. >> >> Ok, that is acceptable. We just lack any tech

Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support"): > Steve Langasek writes: > > the [pam] module packages should be installed > > for all archs, not just a subset[1]. > > Ok, that is acceptable. We just lack any technical means to ensure this > so