Thursday 22 October 2015

Re: moving libraries to multiarch locations and adding the M-A: same attribute

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:24:42PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> I then looked what libraries are left in /usr/lib on a typical desktop
> installation, and found some more. Attaching the list of source packages
> which build such library packages. Conversion of these packages to
> multiarch packages improves the cross-build experience, so maybe it's not
> good enough to set as a release goal, but if anybody wants to help with
> these updates, please join. Feel free to subscribe me to bug reports
> proposing patches for packages.

For those packages I can install in Debian (pkg-gnome, pkg-evolution,
pkg-vala and friends) I'd prefer to do it immediately there. Feel free
to file a bug with patch in the BTS and X-Debbugs-CC me.

As Seb says, probably at first concentrate on the things that help you
to achieve a goal (e.g. cross-building some package).

Cheers,

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