[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#369411: alsa-lib: FTBFS on AMD64 (32-bit link problems)

[Aurelien Jarno]

James Troup wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net> writes:
 >
>> I don't have an Ubuntu machine so I can't do more work in that
>> direction. It seems it is the case for you, so I let you propose
>> another fix for this problem.
> 
> Dude, that's not how this works.  You want to make a change that
> deviates us from upstream, that means you get to justify the chane in
> a manner that's sufficient that I can both understand it and feel
> confident in proposing it upstream.

We really need to deviates from upstream as we (and Debian derivatives + 
Gentoo) are not following the FHS by installing the 64-bit libraries in 
/lib instead of /lib64 on 64-bit architectures.

Upstream follows the FHS.

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