* Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> [100703 11:32]: > b) libnss-extrausers builds only one binary package, which contains all > variants for a given architecture. [...] > The approach b has the advantage that all variants are available and the > user does not have to remember that he might want to run 32bit variants > and needs to install another package. The cost of this is the additional > dependency on the “other” libc6-* package, as noted by Petter in this > bug.
Take a look at http://packages.debian.org/sid/libnss-extrausers: It only depends on libc6 (or libc0.1 or libc0.3 on kfreebsd or hurd), but only suggests the libc*-<otherarch>. There is no need to have a depends on libc6-i386 at all. (And even the Suggests in libnss-extrausers is mostly documentary): The modules are used by the corresponding libc and the need the libc they are used from. So whenever something uses some variant of an nss-modules the correct variant of libc is already there. And as the libc6-arch depend on the exact version if libc6, it is even the correct version. BTW: speaking about the different subarchitectures. Perhaps it would make sense to move the debian/rules code I've written for libnss-extrausers to some common file (perhaps in dpkg-dev or somewhere else), so it can be included instead and not every libnss package needs to be updated if something changes. It currently looks like: ------------------------- ALSODO = # life would be to simple if there was something to work everywhere.... ABIFLAG_32=-m32 ABIFLAG_64=-m64 # do not forget to update Build-depends when changing something here: ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),sparc) ALSODO = 64 else ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),i386) ALSODO = 64 else ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),kfreebsd-amd64) ALSODO = 32 else ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),amd64) ALSODO = 32 else ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),mips) ABIFLAG_32=-mabi=n32 ABIFLAG_64=-mabi=64 ALSODO = 64 32 else ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),mipsel) ABIFLAG_32=-mabi=n32 ABIFLAG_64=-mabi=64 ALSODO = 64 32 else ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),powerpc) ALSODO = 64 else ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),s390) ALSODO = 64 endif ------------------------- Which still keeps open the problem of updating build-depends once a new subarchitecture shows up. The only solution I currently see is having some libc-allarchitectures-dev package pulling in all the needed stuff, which looks a bit like overkill. Anyone any other idea? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100703095540.ga25...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
