[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] ia32-libs-dev transitional package?

[Goswin von Brederlow]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:42:16AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> With the advent of multiarch, the ia32-libs package has now been replaced with a
> transitional package which simply depends on the :i386 versions of the separate
> packages for the various libraries previously shipped as part of ia32-libs. This
> allows people who had been depending on ia32-libs to make a simple transition to
> multiarch, with little or no manual effort.
> 
> Is there any corresponding or otherwise similar transition planned for
> ia32-libs-dev and the various libraries' development packages? Or is it intended
> that anyone using ia32-libs-dev will need to install any *-dev:i386 packages
> which they still need manually? Or are the -dev packages expected to conflict
> with their other-architecture equivalents in some way, such that it does not
> even make sense to have more than one installed at once?
> 
> Put simply: what is it intended that someone who has had ia32-libs-dev installed
> do, in making the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, to retain the
> equivalent of the functionality provided by the ia32-libs-dev package?

The right way is to use an i386 chroot to build i386 packages and use them
under multiarch.

MfG
	Goswin