Bug#611230: Please convert flex to multiarch

Hi, Thanks to all of you for helping take care of flex. This patch is now merged, and installed in unstable. manoj -- Last yeer I kudn't spel Engineer. Now I are won. Manoj Srivastava 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C5

Bug#611230: Please convert flex to multiarch

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:35:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:50:00PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > +Package: libfl-dev > > +Section: libdevel > > +Priority: optional > > +Architecture: any > > +Multi-Arch: same > > +Replaces: flex (<< 2.5.35-10ubuntu2) > Shouldn't

Bug#611230: Please convert flex to multiarch

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:50:00PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > +Package: libfl-dev > +Section: libdevel > +Priority: optional > +Architecture: any > +Multi-Arch: same > +Replaces: flex (<< 2.5.35-10ubuntu2) Shouldn't you also have a matching Breaks field, to avoid the situation called out in th

Bug#611230: Please convert flex to multiarch

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:17:40PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > Here is a updated patch. Steves patch is not quite enough for multiarch > > cross-compiling. For example when compiling from amd64 to armel, > > We need a /usr/bin/flex we can run, so it needs to amd64 binary, while we > > need > >

Bug#611230: Please convert flex to multiarch

diff -urN tmp/flex-2.5.35//debian/common/archvars.mk flex-2.5.35//debian/common/archvars.mk --- tmp/flex-2.5.35//debian/common/archvars.mk 2011-09-16 12:08:22.0 +0300 +++ flex-2.5.35//debian/common/archvars.mk 2011-09-15 12:18:59.869919366 +0300 @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ export DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU

Bug#611230: Please convert flex to multiarch

Hi, > Here is a updated patch. Steves patch is not quite enough for multiarch > cross-compiling. For example when compiling from amd64 to armel, > We need a /usr/bin/flex we can run, so it needs to amd64 binary, while we need > a libfl.a that is armel architecture. The only way to achieve this is