On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Gregor Jasny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm the maintainer of v4l-utils and ran into the following problem: > > The last v4l-utils Debian package added a build dependency to libjpeg, > and because I also build 32bit libs on amd64 (for Skype) I had to add an > build dependency on ia32-libs-dev (where libjpeg.so lives on Debian). > > But as far as I can see Ubuntu does not have this package. Here the > libjpeg.so file is provided within the ia32-libs package. > > Do you know how I can express this within the control file? > > IMHO the Ubuntu ia32-libs package should provide the ia32-libs-dev > dependency. But it seems not to be there. > > Personally I'd like to drop the 32bit packages and use multiarch. But > this does not seem to be ready for prime time.
So, IIRC multiarch in Debian is blocked on a couple of patches percolating through experimental (dpkg and apt I think). However in Ubuntu multiarch is usable and things are progessing well. So I think for Debian in the short term you need to keep the current dependency, and for the long term on Debian, plus short term on Ubuntu you should go multiarch. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
