[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#738538: Is boost1.55 really multiarch ?

[Marc Glisse]

Source: libboost1.55-dev
Followup-For: Bug #738538

> No, the -dev package is NOT multi-arch.

Dear Maintainer,

is there a particular obstruction to marking it as multi-arch? I was
surprised to notice that it wasn't, when that seemed the whole point of
splitting a -tools-dev package. Listing the files in this package, it
contains only the headers (not autogenerated, so common to all
platforms) and an example, which seems quite safe. (Most) other boost
-dev packages are in the same situation with an extra .a/.so pair which
is safe as well, so I don't think there is anything to do except pasting
the multi-arch line many times in the control file. The longest is
obviously building and checking that the resulting x86 and x86_64 (at
least) packages can be co-installed, and I can understand if you want to
wait for the next upstream release to do that.

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Debian Release: jessie/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
armhf
powerpc

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