[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#632514: Bug#632514: zsh: architecture-dependent files in /usr/share

[Clint Adams]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:30:46AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> e) Make two arch-independent packages, one called zsh-zwc-le and only to
>    be built on little endian architectures and one called zsh-zwc-be and
>    only to be built on big endian architectures. (This hack is probably
>    only policy-conforming if the files are installed in different
>    directories afterwards, i.e. if zsh-zwc-le and zsh-zwc-be could be
>    installed in parallel.)

.zwc files have a header which specifies the endianness of the file.
If you want to create an _all.deb with the .zwc files, you would only
need zsh-zwc.

> f) Let upstream make the .zwc file format endianess-independent.

You could have it always generate BE no matter what architecture it's on.