[Pkg-pascal-devel] Multi-Arch flag for FPC

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Paul,

On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 18:40 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Abou
> 
> On 20-08-17 13:59, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > I was looking at lintian warnings for FPC and many of them are related
> > to dependency-is-not-multi-archified
> > <https://lintian.debian.org/tags/dependency-is-not-multi-archified.html>.
> > I think we can get rid of most of these warnings if we mark the packages
> > fp-units*${PACKAGESUFFIX} as foreign packages.
> > This also makes sens as one may want to have other architectures units
> > on his system for cross compilation. This can be seen as a progress
> > in #845498 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845498>.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> If I knew what the correct multi-arch tags were for the current fpc
> state I would have added them already. I am just too unsure of what is
I'm not sure, but let's discuss them so that we get closer to the right choice.

> the appropriate tag. Also, I don't really trust those that I already
> added anymore. Feel free to add anything that you think is correct.
I'm going to set all fp-units*${PACKAGESUFFIX} to foreign as I've stated above.
This is probably the right choice as these files are the equivalent of lib*
packages. They are meant to be installed if you want to be able to cross compile
and they can be co-installed in the sense you can have them for multiple
architectures on the same computer.
> Would these tags need to change once we really fixed bug 845498?
I'll try to add the right tags so that we don't change anything when fixing
#845498. Normally once we have the packages co-onstallable, we just need to
ensure the cross compiler is installed and can use them by having the right
fpc.cfg in /etc.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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