On 10.02.2018 13:41, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: tags -1 + patch > > On 2016-12-15 21:28 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2016-12-15 08:38 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >>> On 14.12.2016 21:05, Sven Joachim wrote: >>>> Source: readline >>>> Version: 7.0-1 >>>> Tags: buster sid >>>> Control: block 848163 by -1 >>>> >>>> I intend to remove the ncurses multilib packages after the stretch >>>> release, see #848163. Since ncurses is required to build readline, this >>>> means that the readline multilib packages can then no longer be built. >>>> >>>> There are no reverse dependencies of the readline multilib packages, so >>>> removing them should not be a problem. >>> >>> Did we stop building gdb64 packages for 32bit architectures? >> >> Yes, since gdb 7.9-1. >> >>> I'd like to delay that change until the buildds can manage dependencies on >>> foreign architectures. >> >> Has there been any progress on that? Bug #770925 has not seen any >> updates for 16 months. :-( >> >> Which use case of foreign architecture dependencies is handled by the >> existing readline multilib packages? > > Also, while installing foreign architecture packages might sometimes be > useful, linking a program in a newly built package against a shared > foreign-arch library is not really possible, because dpkg-shlipdeps will > generate incorrect dependencies for it.
well, this is an issue which should be filed against dpkg-shlipdeps. Did you actually try to build that?
