[Pkg-xen-devel] Some words on my debian files... [signed]

[Guido Trotter]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:25:03PM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse [c] wrote:

Hi!

> My only concern with forcing the libraries from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib
> is in the future when/if multi-arch support is added so that amd64 is
> not just 64bit but 32/64 and 32bit libs are under /usr/lib and 64bit
> libs are under /usr/lib64. Right now this isn't an issue as /usr/lib64
> is just a symlink to /usr/lib but thinking ahead.
> 

I don't think this will ever happen... Not like this, at least! If multiarch is
to be added there is a proposal by the debian multiarch working group[1],
coordinated by Tollef and others, that will let a debian system be truly
multiarch (that is, have userspace from any of the supported architectures
installed, and maybe run through emulation). I don't remember the exact details
(even if they get explained at every debconf...), though, so we should probably
just go ahead for now... If we have to change, anyway, it's just a path: it
shouldn't be too hard!  ;)

Guido

[1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/multiarch/