Hello, 2015-01-22 2:38 GMT+01:00 Hector Oron <hector.o...@gmail.com>: > Right that was planned for jessie+1. > It should happen on upcoming upload to experimental 7.8.2-1.
Just wanted to note that the above has already happened. >> There's also already a gdb-multiarch package which should be able to >> replace the gdb64 package in some circumstances. But for when that's >> still not enough, it would be possible to make the gdb package be >> Multi-Arch:same, and make it ship triplet-qualified filenames for >> files varying per arch, as in /usr/bin/i586-linux-gnu-gdb, which would >> allow to co-install them with ones from foreign architectures, like >> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gdb. >> >> The maintainer scripts could then use alternatives to create the gdb >> and other slave filenames, and assign a higher priority to the native >> architecture (the one defined by «dpkg --print-architecture»). >> >> In addition this would give a 64-bit package on 32-bit arches that's >> fully functional, as currently the gdb64 packages lack for example >> python support, among other things. >> >> What do you think? > > That should be good! > Could you provide a patch? Any news about a patch for adding triplet-qualified filenames? Do you have enough bandwidth/resources to work on it? Regards, -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
