As discussed on IRC, it is not prohibited for packages to use the multiarch
paths before they're fully Multi-Arch: same. The only requirements are:
- no package can use a triplet path corresponding to an architecture other
than the architecture of this package
- no package can declare itself M-A: same before it's fully coinstallable with
packages of other architectures.
Since the headers in libfreetype6-dev have not been audited to confirm
they're arch-neutral, and /usr/bin/freetype-config is definitely *not*
arch-neutral, the current disposition of this package is correct (if
inconvenient for dpkg-cross :( )
Bear in mind that if we required every package to keep its .so files in
/usr/lib even though the libraries they point to are all in
/usr/lib/<triplet>, we would have much more fragile packaging code in
each library package that's converted; it's very much to our advantage
to handle this centrally in dpkg-cross instead of requiring each library
package that's ready for runtime conversion to do the readlink && sed &&
ln -s dance in debia/rules, or to require that library packages can't
convert until their -dev packages are also ready for conversion.
** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
libfreetype6-dev uses multiarch paths but is not marked with Multi-
Arch field
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