Bug#677778: Conversion of libbonobo to multiarch

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Le dimanche 25 novembre 2012 à 20:22 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a
écrit : 
> this bug is still blocking the ia32-libs-gtk multiarch transition that
> really needs to go into wheezy. The only issue with the patch from the
> bugreport seems to be a question about making it "m-a: same".
> 
> Joss: "m-a: same" allows future packages to specify a dependency of
> "bonobo-activation-server:any" for cases where the architecture of
> the activation server is irelevant to the depending package. This
> feature won't be usable in wheezy. Also, worst case, if it is wrong
> then future packages must not use the "*:any" syntax. So this is
> benign. Packages must test this works before setting "*:any".

What is not clear in the “I object to this patch as is” sentence?

I fail to see the point in migrating bonobo to multi-arch if the
resulting packages only work for one architecture. You are going to
achieve zilch.

I agree it would be nice to have it in wheezy but it is non-trivial work
and low on my to-do list compared to polishing GNOME 3.4.

Cheers,
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