Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I am maintaining one of the gkrellm2 plugin packages, namely gkrellm2-cpufreq. All of these gkrellm2 plugin packages install their plugins into /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins, including mine. However, I was wondering whether the plugins should actually get installed into

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Aron Xu
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: Hello! I am maintaining one of the gkrellm2 plugin packages, namely gkrellm2-cpufreq. All of these gkrellm2 plugin packages install their plugins into /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins, including mine.

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On 30/05/13 16:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I am maintaining one of the gkrellm2 plugin packages, namely gkrellm2-cpufreq. All of these gkrellm2 plugin packages install their plugins into /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins, including mine. This seems appropriate. However, I was wondering

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Simon McVittie [2013-05-30 16:27 +0100]: The only plugins that do benefit from being Multi-Arch are those that are loaded by more than one executable: glibc NSS modules, PAM modules, ALSA plugins, that sort of thing. Or plugins that are used in build-depends. I don't know if this ever

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:27:43PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: Anyone knows how Multi-Arch is handled for other similar plugin packages, other than gkrellm2 plugins? telepathy-mission-control-5 specifically isn't Multi-Arch, because I didn't want to do a small transition (Mission Control +