[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#677787: Bug#677787: Bug#677787: gtk2-engines-xfce: Please add multiarch support

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On dim., 2012-06-17 at 00:34 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
> 

> Is it fair then to only include gtk2-engines-xfce? 

I don't think so.

> It should include all
> the gtk2-engines or none. And I would say "none". It is the users job
> then to install the needed gtk2-engines-* packages for both amd64 and
> i386 if at all. Similar to pam modules when being required in amd64 and
> i386 or input methods for gtk. We don't have a good way to automatically
> force them to be installed for amd64+i386 under multiarch as needed yet.

Agreed.
> 
> > I'm not sure if that applies to multiarch though.
> 
> It will apply there too. Multiarch just changes the file locations. It
> won't change the basic behaviour of gtk. So while this seems
> uninteresting for ia32-libs-gtk itself, I should probably drop the
> dependency, it will be of relevance for users. So gtk2-engines-* should
> probably all be multiarchified.
> 
> Is there a mailinglist for gtk2-engines-* packages where this could be
> discussed with the right audience?
> 

Unfortunately no, I don't think so. I'm directly involved in
gtk2-engines-xfce and gtk2-engines-murrine but I don't know for others.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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