Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> writes: > If it turns out not reasonable to expect the compression results to be > identical, we should probably look into using dpkg --path-exclude= with > /usr/share/{doc,man,info}/* when installing foreign-architecture packages.
I believe the only packages that pose a problem are those marked Multi-Arch: same, allowing multiple architectures of the same package to be installed, and those packages are almost all shared libraries. (Among other things, nothing with a non-arch-qualified binary in bin or sbin directories can be Multi-Arch: same anyway, which rules out most non-shared-library packages other than things like cross-compilers.) libraries are already not allowed to ship files in /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info unless they change with every SONAME bump or we can't have coinstallability of multiple SONAMEs of a package. I think the problem is mostly limited to /usr/share/doc; the remaining corner cases look pretty rare. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjimxgub....@windlord.stanford.edu