[Multiarch-devel] Bug#741519: Bug#741519: libcups2-dev: arch-dependent file in "Multi-Arch: same" package

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Control: tags -1 +pending

Le lundi, 24 mars 2014, 13.22:31 Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > * Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx at debian.org>, 2014-03-17, 08:28:
> > >libdir and imagelibdir are used by cups-config to determine the
> > >path to the static library. Would it be acceptable with multiarch
> > >in mind to let /usr/bin/cups-config use dpkg-architecture (+depend
> > >on dpkg-dev) or gcc -print-multiarch (+depend on
> > >gcc/build-essential) to determine the path for it?
> 
> Well, from a multiarch standpoint there's nothing to speak against it;
> and since this is a -dev package, a dependency on dpkg-dev is not
> entirely unreasonable.
> 
> I think it's generally better to get our upstreams to obsolete and
> drop /usr/bin/foo-config in favor of pkg-config due to issues such as
> this, but that obviously involves a long deprecation cycle due to
> other dependent packages using them.  So I think Didier's idea here
> is a reasonably clever hack.

Thanks for the feedback.

So I've now committed:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=printing/cups.git;a=commitdiff;h=584118361be9d7247c4b7f6b439f560badb08538

… which will be part of the next upload due soon.

Cheers,
OdyX
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