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Re: multi arch shared libarary with non multi arch -dev package?



Paul Elliott <pelliott@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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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