On 17.09.2016 16:08, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > i Till (and others), > > Quoting Till Kamppeter (2016-09-17 00:50:45) >> I have now re-applied multi-arch to Ubuntu's Ghostscript package which >> is nearly identical to Debian's current Ghostscript package. So I >> attach the debdiff and hope with this you will easily able to add >> multi-arch functionality to Debian's Ghostscript package. >> >> I am very grateful if you apply this so that I can keep the delta >> between Debian's and Ubuntu's Ghostscript packages low. > > Thanks for the suggested patch. > > I am worried, however, about the following phrase at > https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation: > >> If your -dev package contains headers which vary across architectures >> then it cannot be marked as Multi-Arch: same until a policy decision >> is made about architecture-dependant headers and the toolchain is >> updated. > > Did you test that the multi-arch packages work in a multi-arch > environment? Looking at the symbols file, it seems headers do vary.
The encoding of symbols has nothing to do with the header files, I also can't see any generated header files which differ on different architectures. If the latter should be the cause, these surely can be moved into the multiarch include directory.
