On 2018-07-30 23:14, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Gevers: > > > Hi Florian, > > > > On 29-07-18 13:26, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> I'm not sure why it is necessary to build glibc three times (unless > >> it's impossible to get multi-arch packages into the buildroot). > > > > I am not sure if I understand what you mean, but currently having > > multiple arches available in the autopkgtest testbed isn't supported. I > > have seen packages try (gnupg2), but this goes easily wrong considering > > the unstable-to-testing migration setup. If there is a real need for > > this, it should come from autopkgtest. > > Sorry, I never worked on the Debian toolchain, so my phrasing was > poor. > > In concrete terms, what I meant was: Why build libc6-i386 on amd64 > when there is a libc6:i386 package as well?
This package is basically only used by gcc to support multilib. Therefore it's indeed possible to not include those builds in the autopkgtests. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
