There was a lot of discussion about the perl packaging and multiarch
over the last couple of years. I'm not quite sure what the current
state and best practice advice is. Is it written down somewhere? (I
didn't see anything relevant at https://wiki.debian.org)
Hence I am not quite sure what the best advice for the tex maintainer
(below) is, who is wrestling with making tex multiarch-friendly.
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From: Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at>
To: Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#792281: texlive-latex-base: not Multi-Arch: foreign
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Dear all,
I have now built tex-common and src:texlive-bin according to the
discussed changes:
> tex-common, texlive-lang, telxive-doc, texlive-base
> M-A: foreign
> texlive-binaries: M-A: foreign
> lib*, lib*-dev: M-A: same
> luatex: M-A: foreign (dummy transitional package)
and then tried to install the :i386 versions in a clean chroot
(cowbuilder) of amd64 arch. First adding the new arch with
dpkg --add-architecture i386 I then tried to install texlive-binaries:i386,
which failed badly, due to:
texlive-binaries:i386 depends perl:i386
perl:i386 depends perl-base:i386
perl-base:i386 conflicts perl-base
The dependency that we have here is not strictly on a perl:i386, we just
need *any* perl interpreter for several scripts that are necessary
to be run (in particular updmap and fmtutil).
On the plus side, it didn't complain and properly selected tex-common:amd64
for installation.
Any suggestions how this should be handled from the M-A point of view?
(I have not built new texlive-base/doc/lang packages by now)
Norbert
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