[pkg-db-devel] Bug#647869: db-defaults: Please make -dev packages Arch: any, Multi-Arch: same

[Steve Langasek]

Package: db-defaults
Version: 5.1.4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch

Hi Ondřej,

Although the libdb-dev package doesn't contain any architecture-dependent
data, it does represent an architecture-specific interface; packages which
build-depend on it, for instance, need to wind up with the .a file for the
corresponding architecture.  As multiarch increasingly enables
cross-compilation of packages, it's important that packages be able to
express a build-dependency on the -dev package for a particular
architecture.  This means that libdb-dev (et al.) should be Architecture:
any, and Multi-Arch: same.

The attached trivial patch which implements this has been uploaded to
Ubuntu.

Thanks,
-- 
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=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control	2011-04-21 08:55:34 +0000
+++ debian/control	2011-11-07 03:05:11 +0000
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~)
 
 Package: libdb-dev
-Architecture: all
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
 Section: libdevel
 Priority: extra
 Depends: libdb5.1-dev, ${misc:Depends}
@@ -28,7 +29,8 @@
  unversioned links to current database utilities.
 
 Package: libdb++-dev
-Architecture: all
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
 Section: libdevel
 Priority: extra
 Depends: libdb5.1++-dev (>= 5.1.25-2~), ${misc:Depends}
@@ -39,7 +41,8 @@
  library. This is only for programs which will use the C++ interface.
 
 Package: libdb-sql-dev
-Architecture: all
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
 Section: libdevel
 Priority: extra
 Depends: libdb5.1-sql-dev, ${misc:Depends}
@@ -49,7 +52,8 @@
  library.
 
 Package: libdb-java-dev
-Architecture: all
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
 Section: libdevel
 Priority: extra
 Depends: libdb5.1-java-dev (>= 5.1.25-7~), ${misc:Depends}