On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 00:55:46 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> (Copying explicitly pochu since he's the most active uploader in the
> last year)
>
> Hi,
>
> 2016-09-03 13:10 Helmut Grohne:
> > [...]
> > Hi,
> >
> > xserver-xorg-dev makes the aforementioned affected packages fail to
> > cross build from source, because pkg-config does not consider[1]
> > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ during cross compilation. In contrast, it always
> > considers /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/pkgconfig, so moving
> > xorg-server.pc there will make both native and cross builds happy.
> >
> > The requested change is implemented in the attached patch for your
> > convenience.
>
> How do you feel about applying this patch to help with cross-compilation
> and (re)bootstrapping?
>
Unconvinced. d/rules is already too messy as it is.
> If it helps, I can prepare a NMU for it.
>
I don't think that would be appropriate.
Cheers,
Julien
