[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#674215: Bug#674215: libwbclient-dev: arch-dependent file in "Multi-Arch: same" package

[Ivo De Decker]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:33:25PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org>, 2012-05-24, 07:27:
> >>libwbclient-dev is marked as "Multi-Arch: same", but the
> >>following file is architecture-dependent:
> >>
> >>/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wbclient.pc
> >>
> >>An example diff between i386 and amd64 is attached.
> >
> >Thanks for pointing this. I'm still very very new to this
> >multi-arch stuff so I'd appreciate help about it. Steve Langasek
> >might give the right clue...but might also be busy elsewhere so,
> >indeed, any help for the right fix would be appreciated
> 
> For "Multi-Arch: same" packages, *.pc files should normally be
> installed to /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/pkgconfig/. Hope this
> helps. :)

Jakub,

Could you document this in the wiki?

BTW I submitted a lintian check for this issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674469

Cheers,

Ivo