On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:13:45 +0100 Francois Gouget <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: libpcap0.8-dev > Version: 1.6.2-2 > Followup-For: Bug #760370 > > Dear Maintainer, > > The thing that makes the pcap-config script incompatible with multiarch is that it outputs > a -L$libdir option. > > However on Debian that option is not needed to link with libraries in /usr/lib/<triplet>. So I propose the following patch to make libpcap0.8-dev multiarch-compatible. > > The patch also reorders a couple extra lines as I think it makes sense to have the Architecture and Multi-Arch lines together, and the Pre-Depends line right before the Depends one. Those cosmetic changes could be ignored of course.
Dear Maintainer, Is there any chance this patch could be looked at? One of the problems is that any reverse dependencies of libpcap-dev cannot be multi-arch compatible because of this bug, as the whole dependency chain needs to be co-installable. Thanks! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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