On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 01:32:47AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > I cleaned up some more of the old multiarch patches and hit another > spot where a decision must be made: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unpacking libhello/i386 (from .../libhello/libhello_1.0_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /home/mrvn/src/libhello/libhello_1.0_i386.deb > (--install): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/libhello/changelog.gz', which is also in > package libhello/amd64 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Every package must have a changelog and copyright and many also have a > Readme and NEWS file. Those and any other files in doc will collide > for multiarch. > > Dpkg could rename the files for the non native architecture by > prefixing them with the architecture, e.g. > /usr/share/doc/libhello/i386_changelog.gz > or > /usr/share/doc/libhello/i386/changelog.gz
I don't really like this idea, this will most probably confuse the user, while also probably duplicating data. At some point it has been decided to provide a -common package for every package converted to multiarch, containing changelog, README, NEWS, and probably more thinks like man pages, info pages, etc. Then multiarch package could simply add a link from /usr/share/doc/package to /usr/share/doc/package-common, and we should change dpkg to allow a symlink to be overrided by another if both point to the same location. What do you think? -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
