On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:17:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> >> What could be allowed is using the new include paths with a Depends on
> >> the multiarch package even if the package itself is not multiarch.

> > No.  multiarch-support declares runtime support for ld.so.  It has nothing
> > to do with include paths (or -dev packages in general) and should not be
> > abused like this.

> Will there be a multiarch-dev-support then or will -dev packages have to
> Depends on the right versions of a number of build tools?

Why do you need either?  What real problem are you trying to solve?

multiarch-support is needed to ensure users's systems don't render
themselves completely unusable in the middle of an upgrade. 
multiarch-dev-support would be a lot of work to solve something that is
merely an inconvenience - a compile-time error that requires the user to
upgrade to the current gcc on i386 to fix.

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