Bug#854965: clang-4.0: Pulls 64-bit libs on i386 system

[Sylvestre Ledru]

severity 854965 normal
thanks

Le 12/02/2017 à 20:34, Robert Luberda a écrit :
> Sylvestre Ledru pisze:
>> Why do you consider that as serious?
> The Debian Policy in section 3.5 says "Every package must specify the
> dependency information about other packages that are required for the
> first to work correctly."  It can be that the sentence is more about
> depending on needed packages rather than about not depending on
> unnecessary ones, but honestly I would still consider too wide
> dependencies as a serious bug. However feel free lower the severity if
> you disagree.
yeah, I just did. This doesn't cause any severe issues.

> Anyway in my opinion the 64-bit libraries are not needed for clang to
> work correctly on i386. I can see that the libclang-common-dev package
> started providing some x86_64 libs, and dpkg-shlibdeps added dependences
> that were necessary for those libs; but I am really in doubt if clang
> will ever use those libs in normal usage, so maybe there is some
> packaging error somewhere? However if this was intentional for any
> reason, it would be great if you could consider making the dev package
> Multi-Arch:same instead to get rid of those strange 64-bit libs dependences.
I think it was introduced in 3.9-5 to fix bug #841923. I guess 3.9 is
also impacted

Don't hesitate to propose a patch to implement Multi-Arch:same.
I won't have the time to implement it soon.

S