On 2012-08-13 09:32, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:30:12PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> So: What exactly did you mean by "split"?
>
> Patrick's idea was to split the gettext binary package into two
> packages: one package that would contain those parts that satisfy
> dependencies of packages of every other architecture (this package would
> be M-A: foreign) and one package that would only allow to satisfy
> dependencies of packages of the same architecture (this package would be
> M-A: same).
Indeed, I meant that the architecture-specific interfaces [1] currently
provided by the gettext binary package could be moved into one or two
new binary packages. The result would be something like:
* gettext (Multi-Arch: foreign)
* libgettext (Multi-Arch: same)
* libgettext-dev (Multi-Arch: same)
* gettext-base
* ...
1. These include the libgettextlib, libgettextsrc, and preloadable
libintl objects and gettext Java archive, as Johannes noted.
On 2012-08-13 07:30, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Moreover, all the libraries which are meant to be used by other
> packages are already multi-arched and they are in their own package
> (the last two in the list above).
But this is a good point, which I had failed to realize previously. No
files in Debian besides the Gettext utilities should link against the
libraries in the gettext binary package.
And I just verified that this rule appears to hold for all 36 packages
in sid main amd64 that declare run-time dependencies on gettext. None
of their ELF files are dynamically linked against the libgettextlib,
libgettextsrc, or preloadable_libintl objects.
So I think this means that the gettext binary package can remain as-is
and simply be marked Multi-Arch: foreign (rather than splitting it or
marking it Multi-Arch: allowed and adding :any to dependency lists of
other packages).
Or might it be necessary to support other packages someday linking
against gettext's internal library objects (and the cross building of
those packages)?
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