Hi!

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:37:10 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> tag 180128 - patch
> thanks
> 
> The bulk of the patch is now out of date but rather than spend time
> updating the patch, work is ongoing to merge the existing dpkg-cross
> package (which includes all the cache values and architecture support)
> into dpkg itself, sometime after Lenny.
>
> Far better, in my view, to remove the 'patch' tag from this report, keep
> it open as wishlist and I'll merge it with the eventual bug report that
> implements an updated patch (arranged with Guillem) that fully merges
> dpkg-cross into dpkg and then remove dpkg-cross (and apt-cross) from
> unstable.

So, was checking this (and also the dpkg roadmap) and was wondering what
else is still missing to be merged from dpkg-cross? If the only problem
is the listed below, then it'd seem this bug has been resolved and it
can be closed.

> The main issue unresolved in this bug report is the mapping
> of /usr/lib/foo.so to /usr/arm-linux-gnu/lib/foo.so for packages that do
> not use pkg-config (e.g. I'm having upstream problems trying to
> configure a package that build-depends on Postgres and ODBC using
> pg_config and iodbc-config respectively).

This should be solved by making those packages multi-arch ready.

thanks,
guillem


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