Bug#1023313: gap-guava-bin: do not hardcode kv7 in path without depend on gap-kernel-7

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Bill, I got a closer look.

It appears that [gap-]guava auxiliary binaries do not depend on gap-dev related packages.
We must discard this dependency a part of resolving the issue.
However, these auxiliary binaries are C compiled executables, that is to say
that they are not scripts.
Therefore the comment above/below is relevant.

> > > 
> > > > However only the last dir[ectory] may work on muti-architecture boxes.
> > > > Here we would need a "/usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/<arch-triplet> between the two current ones:
> > > > can gap support this ?
> > > 
> > > GAP does not have the notion of the Debian triplet, so it is difficult to write a patch
> > > to add /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/$(DEBIAN_TRIPLET)/
> > 
> > I guess that a patch can be written to do so.
> 
> This probably requires changing the C code to define a new GAPInfo.DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH field.
> Do you have a better idea ?
> 

I am ready to write such a C patch. Is that okay with you ?

Best wishes,
Jerome




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