Control: severity -1 wishlist
On 2012-09-29 14:27 +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> The amd64 version conflicts with the i386 one which makes it
> impossible to install both. As a result the
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so symbolic link is missing so that
> developping 32bit applications using this library is impossible on a
> 64bit system.
>
> Furthermore this development package does not seem to be multiarch aware as
> there is no Multi-Arch field.
>
> My understanding is that as long as there are no
> architecture-dependent headers there is no obstacle (i.e. no toolchain
> issue) to tagging the development package as 'Multi-Arch: same'. The
> symbolic link (and any static libraries) should be no issue as they
> are already in the architecture-qualified folders.
Unfortunately the headers _are_ currently architecture dependent, see
#646761/#646977.
Cheers,
Sven
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