Bug#968451: libgcrypt20-dev not multi-arch installable

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Fri Jul 19 16:52:35 BST 2024


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On 2020-08-15 Christian Klein <dvlohp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: libgcrypt20-dev
> Version: 1.8.6-2
> Severity: important

> libgcrypt20-dev is not multi-arch installable. It's not only the
> missing multi- arch:same field, but the package also ships various
> files that are different an different architectures.

> One thing is that the -dev package ships "/usr/bin/libgcrypt-config",
> which contains arch-specific information. However, it also ships a
> handful of helper binaries under "usr/bin", namely "dumpsexp",
> "hmac256" and "mpicalc".

> WINE is in the process of switching to libgcrypt, and this bug makes
> compiling recent versions problematic.

Hello,

FYI I have made the necessary changes (hopefully) and made an upload
targetting experimental. Since this adds a new binary package for the
helper binaries it needs to pass NEW queue which involves manual
approval by ftp-master, so it might take a couple of days to actually be
available.

cu Andreas
https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libgcrypt20_1.11.0-3.html
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