Bug#542865: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories

["Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>]

* Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [090822 22:11]:
> > What are the chances that exactly those directories will end up in future
> > FHS versions?
>
> Why do you want me to speculate on the *chances* of its inclusion?

Preferably I'd like some arguments that ther is a high chance of its
inclusion.

> my understanding of the FHS is that they only incorporate things
> into the standard for which there's a deployed implementation.

That's my understanding, too. I'm not asking to delay this until it is
in FHS. All I want to know if this is some isolated "let's try this
and tell noone about and if we are fast enough the others might follow"
or if it is some "We spoke with some others and they see no problem with
this scheme and will follow and put in FHS if that works for us".

> > Bitten by every second release changing where sparc64 stuff is at the
> > sparc platform and almost each of those transitions breaking my systems
> > in some way, I'd prefer if everything possible is done to avoid
> > changing it again with the next or next but one release again.
>
> I frankly have no idea what you're talking about.  I'm not aware that 64-bit
> libraries were ever placed anywhere other than [...]/lib64 on sparc,

For example take a look at woody:

|>dpkg-deb -c fakeroot_0.4.4-9.2_sparc.deb  | grep 64
|drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/
|drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/
|-rw-r--r-- root/root     24552 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0.0.1
|lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0 -> libfakeroot.so.0.0.1
|lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so -> libfakeroot.so.0.0.1

|>dpkg-deb -c libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb | grep \/64
|lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2005-01-07 17:49 ./usr/lib/64 -> ../lib64
|lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2005-01-07 17:49 ./lib/64 -> ../lib64

I can guess you can imagine what happend when upgrading in half of the cases...

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link