Control: forcemerge 648621 -1

On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 11:35:57 +0200 Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote:
> Package: libglib2.0-dev
> Version: 2.50.1-1
> Tags: patch
> User: helm...@debian.org
> Usertags: rebootstrap
> Control: affects -1 + src:cinnamon-session src:clutter-imcontext 
> src:goocanvas src:gtksourceview2 src:libgnomecanvas src:libindicator 
> src:libunique3 src:libunique src:tumbler src:vino
> 
> The packages listed under affects fail to cross build from source,
> because they fail executing glib-genmarshal. I conducted some
> experiments with glib-genmarshal and conclude that its output solely
> depends on the input and command line switches and does not depend on
> the architecture of the glib-genmarshal binary. Thus I believe that
> glib-genmarshal should be moved to a Multi-Arch: foreign package. A
> quick google indicates that using a native glib-genmarshal for cross
> compiling glib users is a common technique further supporting my view.
> 
> Thus, I propose adding a new package libglib2.0-dev-bin. glib-genmarshal
> and other shared components are moved from libglib2.0-dev into the new
> package. It will be Architecture: any (due to containing
> glib-genmarshal) and Multi-Arch: foreign. In order to not break any
> current uses of libglib2.0-dev, it gains a dependency on the new
> package.
> 

Afaics, this is a duplicate of #648621, so merging accordingly.


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