Bug#651134: Please transition glibmm2.4 for multiarch

[Evan Broder]

Source: glibmm2.4
Version: 2.30.0-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch

Hello -

Please find attached a patch to glibmm2.4 to transition ot to use
multiarch library paths as described at
<http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation>. This patch should
be safe to apply in Debian now that multiarch has been bootstrapped.

Since libglibmm-2.4-dev contains no build-time-generated include
files, it can be safely marked as Multi-Arch: same, so this patch does
so. Because its dependency libglib2.0-dev has not yet been
transitioned for multiarch, libglibmm-2.4-dev will not be multiarch
co-installable. This is fine, though, and if libglib2.0-dev were to
ever be transitioned for multiarch, the libglibmm -dev package would
become immediately co-installble.

The most significant blocker to converting packages to multiarch is
the presence of .la files which reference a library in its
dependency_libs line. Debian has made cleaning up these .la files a
release goal, and is tracking the presence of such problematic .la
files at <http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt>.

For some reason glibmm2.4 isn't listed in that file. However, as the
rest of the gtkmm stack lists python-visual and subtitleeditor, I
assume that those reference glibmm2.4 as well. subtitleeditor has
actually already been fixed (I don't know why it is still listed). I
uploaded a fix for python-visual to DELAYED/10 a few days ago (bug
#633273), so once that goes through this upload will be safe. (I'll
add the blocking metadata momentarily)

Thanks for considering the patch,
 - Evan


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