Package: dialog Version: 1.3-20211214-1 Severity: normal User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: multiarch
The dialog package is marked Multi-Arch: foreign, but contains the static library /usr/lib/<triplet>/libdialog.a. This is flagged as an error by lintian. ,---- | $ lintian-explain-tags multiarch-foreign-static-library | N: | E: multiarch-foreign-static-library | N: | N: The package is architecture-dependent, ships a static library in a public, architecture-dependent library search path | N: and is marked Multi-Arch: foreign. A compiler will be unable to find this file, unless it is installed for a matching | N: architecture, but the foreign marking says that the architecture should not matter. | N: | N: Please remove the Multi-Arch: foreign stanza. `---- The lintian diagnosis looks correct to me, but I do not think the suggested remedy is what we want here. Rather, the correct fix should be to split out libdialog.a and the header files into a separate libdialog-dev package (which probably could be marked Multi-Arch: same). -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.119-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dialog depends on: ii debianutils 5.7-0.2 ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libncursesw6 6.3+20220423-2 ii libtinfo6 6.3+20220423-2 dialog recommends no packages. dialog suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
