On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:59:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 21:44 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > Dear developers,
> > Debian policy 3.8.4.0 has been uploaded today with the following changes: > > * An FHS exception has been granted for multiarch libraries. > > Permitting files to instead be installed to `/lib/triplet' and > > `/usr/lib/triplet' directories. [9.1.1] > Does that mean we can start working on multiarch-compatible packages > right now, or would it be a waste of time? It means that packages may begin installing their files in the multiarch directories. The draft multiarch spec is not part of Policy yet, nor is there a package manager that will successfully cross-install these, so I wouldn't encourage maintainers to have their packages declare themselves Multi-Arch: yes without careful coordination with debian-devel. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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