Package: flex
Version: 2.5.35-10
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch
Hi Manoj,
Now that the implementation of multiarch support in dpkg is coming along
(though regrettably too late for squeeze), I'm beginning to work out what
multiarch metadata should be included in the archive; and as flex is a
build-dependency of pam it's come near the top of my list.
Since the 'flex' package includes both a binary and a .so, per
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec this package is logically 'Multi-Arch:
allowed'. The attached patch adds this field to debian/control. I've
uploaded this change to Ubuntu with the following changelog entry:
* debian/control: flex should be declared Multi-Arch: allowed since it
contains both an executable and a library.
You are welcome to consider applying the same patch to Debian. Ultimately,
a better alternative would be if libfl, headers, etc. could be split out
into a separate 'libflex-dev' binary package which flex would then depend
on; if libflex-dev installed libraries to multiarch paths this would make it
possible to install the package on more than one arch at the same time
(Multi-Arch: same) and let the main flex package be Multi-Arch: foreign, but
that's a more long-term sort of change since Policy technically doesn't
allow multi-arch -dev packages yet.
Thanks,
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=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control 2010-06-20 14:17:14 +0000
+++ debian/control 2011-01-26 22:50:04 +0000
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, m4, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler
Suggests: bison, build-essential
+Multi-Arch: allowed
Description: A fast lexical analyzer generator.
Flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical
patterns in text. It reads the given input files for a description of a
