Hi Johannes, dear all
thanks for your explanations, that helped a lot.
I have now made the following test:
> - install a package in a foreign architecture that depends on
> texlive-binaries
Namely, install xdvik-ja:i386 on a amd64 system with the test packages
being available.
Installation went smoothly, and now I have the following packages
installed (packages related to TeX, with full arch specification):
libkpathsea6:amd64
libkpathsea6:i386
so we see that the M-A: same worked out
texlive-binaries:amd64
no :i386 version is installed, although it is a
dependency of xdvik-ja:i386
xdvik-ja:i386
plus some deps of texlive-binaries:amd64 (libptexenc etc in amd64).
So at least from this side it looks fine.
> - crosscompile a source package that build depends on texlive-binaries (but I
> hear Helmut already did that successfully)
I will leave that to one of you, as I hav eno idea how to cross-compile
something.
In case you want to test the current status, please use
deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ texlive multiarch
deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ texlive multiarch
I will add packages for src:texlive-base soon(er or later - I am having
a intercontinental travel ahead tomorrow morning)
If you masters of M-A are happy with that, I am fine with rebuilding
everything and uploading it - with probably one change, the perl:any
dependency change.
Thanks a lot
Norbert
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