On 03.05.2016 11:33, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 11:23:40AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
So I looked to see whether the Debian Policy was saying multi-arch is a
should, a must or something else.
It turns out it does not say anything of value: multi-arch is mentioned
as being an exception to the FHS in section "9.1.1 File System
Structure" and in footnotes 60, 78 and 79. That's all!
yes, that's rather odd and annoying. it would be great if someone could
pick up the existing work and make sure Multi-Arch *is* properly
documented in policy…
That does not seem compatible with multi-arch being a completed goal of
the old-stable release. So what about adding a section like this:
there are already 7 or so bugs about multi-arch missing in various
places in policy, I'd suggest you go to the BTS, search for those and
help there.
while I understand that some bits should go to the Debian policy, there are
others which should stay vendor neutral. The Debian wiki might not be the best
place to document the tuples, but the policy is neither. So somebody might want
to add it to the FHS, or create a separate spec on i.e. freedesktop.org.
Matthias
