* 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? In Fedora, there's a restriction that buildds cannot install foreign architecture packages. Some packages need a 32-bit glibc on a 64-bit builder, too. (Typical gcc flags, for example, or fake amd64 packages such as amd64). That made me wonder if Debian has a similar restriction for its buildds.
