Bug#699761: (no subject)

2013-07-01 Thread Chad Davis
Here are some suggestions from #multiarch on irc.debian.org so that we can go 
from +wontfix to +canfix:
 I'm heading to bed soon, so I can't help much now. But I see the 
script; it's basically like a mini pkg-config. It prints 
"-I/usr/include/" or "-L/usr/lib/ -lusb …".
 One solution would be to make the script pull in a file in 
/usr/lib/ that defines the includedir and libdir (like pkg-config .pc 
files do).
 Such a solution wouldn't be very invasive. (An alternative would be 
to make libusb just use pkg-config, which DTRT already.)
 Can't libusb-dev:i386 depend on e.g. config-wrapper, have 
/usr/bin/libusb-config-i386 and make the hardlink as part of the install script?
 And likewise for libusb-dev:amd64 and /usr/bin/libusb-config-amd64
 ah yeah i guess that way works, just one extra package for a 
universal script
 probably better to just making it a super generic script and have 
it included in the mulitarch package
 make it super generic so even things other than -dev packages can 
use it


Bug#699761: (no subject)

2013-07-01 Thread Chad Davis
People used to say that computer smaller than the size of rooms were impossible.

All that I can see in that bug report is: "nobody told us how to do this so 
we're not going to." I agree that specs are needed; but that's just lazy; 
surely something could be done in the meantime that goes along with convention.