Bug#652861: gconf: Please mark gconf2 Multi-Arch: foreign

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi Steve,

Le mardi 20 décembre 2011 à 23:38 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : 
> Although GNOME3 is of course moving from gconf to gsettings, some packages
> such as libcanberra-gtk3-module still have a dependency on gconf2.  Having
> a11y support for multiarch-installed software would certainly be nice. 
> Please consider the following patch to mark gconf2 Multi-Arch: foreign.

Thanks for the patch. However, I don’t think there is any use to only
add MA to the gconf2 binary. This would mean you could register
settings, but not use them since libgconf2-4 is not MA.

I’ve already had a look at how to multiarchify gconf as a whole, but it
is complicated to do so without reintroducing the circular dependency
between the lib (which should be MA: same) and the daemon (which should
be MA: foreign).

The solution will probably be to statically link the library into the
daemon. If you have any other ideas, please share.

Cheers,
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