Bug#689090: libgstreamer0.10-dev is not Multi-Arch compatible

[Francois Gouget]

Package: libgstreamer0.10-dev
Version: 0.10.36-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The amd64 version conflicts with the i386 one which makes it impossible to install both. As a result the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-0.10.so symbolic link is missing so that developping 32bit applications (e.g. Wine) using this library is impossible on a 64bit system.

Furthermore this development package does not seem to be multiarch aware as there is no Multi-Arch field.

My understanding is that as long as there are no architecture-dependent headers there is no obstacle (i.e. no toolchain issue) to tagging the development package as 'Multi-Arch: same'. The symbolic link (and any static libraries) should be no issue as they are already in the architecture-qualified folders.

A good model for this appears to be the libx11-dev package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgstreamer0.10-dev depends on:
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10  0.10.36-1
ii  libc6                  2.13-35
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]   2.13-35
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.32.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-dev         2.32.3-1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.36-1
ii  libxml2-dev            2.8.0+dfsg1-5
ii  pkg-config             0.26-1

Versions of packages libgstreamer0.10-dev recommends:
ii  debhelper  9.20120830

Versions of packages libgstreamer0.10-dev suggests:
pn  gstreamer0.10-doc  <none>

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