Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-14 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 09.01.2014 20:20, schrieb Colin Watson: > Apparently, though, quite a few packages do fail to build with > /usr/bin/libtool split out. I don't have numbers yet - Matthias said he > was going to summarise. Still, I think this will be easier to fix than > trying to get an M-A: allowed libtool to

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > If you weren't one of the people in the "thinking extremely hard about > multiarch" BOF at DebConf, note that Multi-Arch: foreign denotes a point > in the dependency graph where you're allowed to switch architectures, > Multi-Arch: all

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Overall, I would therefore prefer option 1 (not the option I expected to > prefer when I started analysing this!), because as far as I can see it > will unblock cross-building for both packages that need /usr/bin/libtool > and those

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:55:06PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > This analysis makes sense as far as it goes, but the problem with it is > > that it neglects any consideration of libtool's dependencies. As I > > discovered today, it t

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:14:07PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > The correct solution is for libtool package to be marked as > > "multi-arch: allowed" without splitting this tiny package into two > > even smaller packages. > >

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:14:07PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > The correct solution is for libtool package to be marked as > "multi-arch: allowed" without splitting this tiny package into two > even smaller packages. This analysis makes sense as far as it goes, but the problem with it is t