Bug#651776: Please transition gtkmm2.4 to multiarch

[Evan Broder]

Package: gtkmm2.4
Version: 1:2.24.2-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch

Hello -

Please find attached a patch to gtkmm2.4 to transition it to use
multiarch library paths as described at
<http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation>. This patch should
be safe to apply in Debian now that multiarch has been bootstrapped.

Since libgtkmm-2.4-dev contains no build-time-generated include files
or arch-dependent scripts/executables, it can be safely marked as
Multi-Arch: same, so this patch does so. Because many of its direct
and indirect dependencies have not yet been transitioned for
multiarch, libgtkmm-2.4-dev will not currently be multiarch
co-installable. This is fine, though, and if all of the dependencies
were ever to be transitioned for multiarch, the gtkmm -dev package
would immediately become multiarch co-installable.

Typically the biggest outstanding blocker to multiarch transitions is
.la files with non-empty dependency_libs lines. I don't have access to
lintian.debian.org, but I checked all files listed in
http://lintian.ubuntuwire.org/tags/non-empty-dependency_libs-in-la-file.html
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/766579/) and gtkmm2.4 isn't listed anywhere,
so this transition should be safe now by that metric.

Thanks for your consideration,
 - Evan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers oneiric-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 'oneiric'), (100, 'oneiric-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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