Hi Otto, On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:14:20AM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > If I move just the header file but not all of > /usr/include/mariadb/server, will there be issues with paths at some > point?
Likely yes. For using these headers, you specify a custo -I flag (that likely comes from pkg-config or something similar). You'd need to insert another -I flag into every consumer. > I don't have any sample program to build and test against > libmariadbd-dev and I am not a C/C++ coder so this starts to be beyond > my level. You'd likely have to test this with every reverse dependency of which there seem to be around 200. Keep in mind however what the goal is. Whenever you think about multiarching a -dev package, the only use case is cross building. But most of the time, cross building never requires marking -dev packages multiarch. It just makes it more convenient for developers. So really, removing the M-A is a simple stop gap solution that works for 90% of the cases. Please spend your precious time elsewhere if possible and just drop the M-A:same. Helmut
