Bug#905715: Directory for .gir (gobject-introspection) files? (Multi-Arch)

2019-12-26 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/issues/323 On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 17:03:43 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 05:02:53PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Multiarch-qualified directories under /usr/share don't seem like they make > > mu

Bug#905715: Directory for .gir (gobject-introspection) files? (Multi-Arch)

2019-02-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Simon, On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 05:02:53PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > Multiarch-qualified directories under /usr/share don't seem like they make > much sense: the whole point of the $libdir/$datadir duality is that if > files need to be different on some architectures, then the files should

Bug#905715: Directory for .gir (gobject-introspection) files? (Multi-Arch)

2019-02-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 00:18:54 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > (Just for myself in order to not forget it,) the six > GLib-2.0.gir variants are: > > - amd64 > - armel, armhf, i386, mipsel > - arm64, mips64el, ppc64el > - hurd-i386 > - mips > - s390x > > The differences are e.g. in how/wh

Bug#905715: Directory for .gir (gobject-introspection) files? (Multi-Arch)

2019-02-16 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi Simon, many thanks for taking the time to go through this bug report! Very much appreciated! On 2019-02-16 17:02, Simon McVittie wrote: > Multiarch-qualified directories under /usr/share don't seem like they make > much sense: the whole point of the $libdir/$datadir duality is that if > files

Bug#905715: Directory for .gir (gobject-introspection) files? (Multi-Arch)

2019-02-16 Thread Simon McVittie
(Cross-posting to debian-devel, but with Reply-To to the bug) On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 09:32:16 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > at the moment, .gir files are placed under /usr/share/gir-1.0/. > However, such files can contain architecture specific content. > What would be the right directory? /usr