Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 04:55:02PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes:
>>> The unfounded assumption here is that you will always install a >>> foreign-arch M-A: same package together with the native-arch version. >>> If I install libaudio2:i386 because I want to play a game that's only >>> available as a 32-bit binary and has this lib as a dependency, and >>> nothing else on my system uses libaudio2, I still expect to get >>> /usr/share/libaudio2/AuErrorDB installed. >> How is that not a serious policy violation already? AuErrorDB isn't >> versioned with the SONAME, so libaudio2 and libaudio3 would not be >> coinstallable. > Because libaudio2 is in the directory name. Oh, duh. Sorry, I'm just blind. > Also, it's not a policy violation for a library package to contain files > that don't have sensibly versioned names; it's only a policy violation > for the name to not change on soname bump. So even if this were called > /usr/share/AuErrorDB, it could be changed to > /usr/share/libaudio3/AuErrorDB on soname change and still be compliant. Good point. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ty30iz9a....@windlord.stanford.edu
