Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-14 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 09.01.2014 20:20, schrieb Colin Watson: Apparently, though, quite a few packages do fail to build with /usr/bin/libtool split out. I don't have numbers yet - Matthias said he was going to summarise. Still, I think this will be easier to fix than trying to get an M-A: allowed libtool to

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: If you weren't one of the people in the thinking extremely hard about multiarch BOF at DebConf, note that Multi-Arch: foreign denotes a point in the dependency graph where you're allowed to switch architectures, Multi-Arch: allowed

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:14:07PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: The correct solution is for libtool package to be marked as multi-arch: allowed without splitting this tiny package into two even smaller packages. This analysis makes sense as far as it goes, but the problem with it is that

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:14:07PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: The correct solution is for libtool package to be marked as multi-arch: allowed without splitting this tiny package into two even smaller packages. This

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:55:06PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: This analysis makes sense as far as it goes, but the problem with it is that it neglects any consideration of libtool's dependencies. As I discovered today, it totally

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Overall, I would therefore prefer option 1 (not the option I expected to prefer when I started analysing this!), because as far as I can see it will unblock cross-building for both packages that need /usr/bin/libtool and those