[Goswin von Brederlow] > Then installing the i386 package on amd64 would create the symlink > and make sources building for 64bit find the 32bit libraries. Verry > bad idea.
1) People shouldn't be installing -dev packages from the wrong architecture. It is too early in the game to rely on that sort of thing yet. 2) If some source package does not express a Build-Depends in such a way as to cause the correct architecture "foo-dev" package to be installed, I'd say that's a serious bug in either the source package, or the multi-arch design. 3) The dh_makeshlibs postinst logic _could_ only create the symlink if the architecture is the host architecture, however you detect that in multi-arch land. And indeed it could stop doing so if it detects that pkg-config is an appropriate version. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
