Bug#636605: Please add multiarch support to libsdl

[Riku Voipio]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 09:30:32AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-08-05 11:31 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:47:06PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> > last is needed to support crosscompiling (so that /usr/bin/sdl-config is same on all archs,
> >> > allowing Multi-Arch: same setting for the -dev package).
> >> 
> >> There is a little problem with the latter, namely…
> >
> >> …it requires dpkg-dev (1.16.0 or later due to DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) for
> >> dpkg-architecture.
> >
> > Easily fixed on the attached patch.
> 
> It seems you forgot to actually attach the patch.

lets try attaching again...
 
> I'm not sure that having libfoo-dev packages depend on dpkg-dev is
> desirable, although this currently seems to be the only way to retrieve
> the multiarch path.  Since there are many foo-config scripts in the
> archive, maybe this should be discussed with a broader audience,
> i.e. debian-devel?  

Mmm.. what would exactly be the question for debian-devel? Also, my in
experience posting to d-d rarely results useful responses. 

> See also http://bugs.debian.org/636352.

That is a bit different, I can understand that not everyone wants dpkg-dev
to build initramfs-tools. But for -dev packages dpkg-dev is most likely already
installed via build-essential. The only ones who would get an extra package install
are those who want to build sdl apps without debian packaging.

Riku

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