Bug#689097: libgtk2.0-dev is not Multi-Arch compatible

[Francois Gouget]

Package: libgtk2.0-dev
Version: 2.24.10-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The amd64 version conflicts with the i386 one which makes it impossible to install both. As a result the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so symbolic link is missing so that developping 32bit applications using this library is impossible on a 64bit system.

Furthermore this development package does not seem to be multiarch aware as there is no Multi-Arch field.

My understanding is that as long as there are no architecture-dependent headers there is no obstacle (i.e. no toolchain issue) to tagging the development package as 'Multi-Arch: same'. The symbolic link (and any static libraries) should be no issue as they are already in the architecture-qualified folders.

A good model for this appears to be the libx11-dev package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgtk2.0-dev depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-dev         2.4.0-2
ii  libcairo2-dev         1.12.2-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-dev        2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.24.10-2
ii  libgtk2.0-common      2.24.10-2
ii  libpango1.0-dev       1.30.0-1
ii  libx11-dev            2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcomposite-dev     1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxcursor-dev        1:1.1.13-1
ii  libxdamage-dev        1:1.1.3-2
ii  libxext-dev           2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxfixes-dev         1:5.0-4
ii  libxi-dev             2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxinerama-dev       2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxml2-utils         2.8.0+dfsg1-5
ii  libxrandr-dev         2:1.3.2-2
ii  pkg-config            0.26-1

Versions of packages libgtk2.0-dev recommends:
ii  debhelper  9.20120830
ii  python     2.7.3~rc2-1

Versions of packages libgtk2.0-dev suggests:
pn  libgtk2.0-doc  <none>

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