On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Paul Elliott <pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com> writes: > >> Is it OK to have a shared library multi arch with the corresponding -dev >> package not multi arch? > >> The the -dev package contains some utilitiy arch dep executables and >> thus can not be made multi arch? > > Yes, absolutely. Much of the benefit of multi-arch comes from just having > the libraries be multi-arch, and we've not yet made a push to multi-arch > the dev packages. The dev packages pose a variety of additional > challenges that we haven't completely sorted through. >
In scenarios like this where you have executables installed in non-architecture-specific paths in your -dev package, you could always split them out into a new libfoo-bin or libfoo-utils package. It's up to you to determine whether or not this is worth doing, and if this may cause any unwanted regressions. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caczd_tds3w9eb-ydgkefoa2cqxkqkppuhiw8l8o0syvtpsw...@mail.gmail.com
