[Multiarch-devel] cross-architecture conflicts or equivalent for libc packages

[Jakub Wilk]

* Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>, 2014-05-19, 13:28:
>>>i386            /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>>
>>Provides: lib-ld-linux-so-2
>>Conflicts: lib-ld-linux-so-2
>>Replaces: lib-ld-linux-so-2
>
>So following your way, it would be exactly the same for libc6:sparc.
>
>libc6-i386 also provides /lib/ld-linux.so.2. It should be 
>co-installable with libc6:i386, but libc6:sparc should not be 
>co-installable with libc6:i386 or libc6-i386.

Oh, right. Couldn't the biarch packages die already? :)

If they can't, I suppose you can implement cross-architecture conflicts 
with plain conflicts against virtual packages:

Package: libc6
Architecture: i386
Provides: libc6-on-i386
Conflicts: libc6-on-sparc, ...

Package: libc6-i386
Architecture: amd64
Conflicts: libc6-on-sparc, ...

Package: libc6
Architecture: sparc
Provides: libc6-on-sparc
Conflicts: libc6-on-i386, libc6-i386, ...

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Jakub Wilk