Bug#642415: please add multi-arch support for libgnome

[Michael Biebl]

Am 22.09.2011 15:23, schrieb Riku Voipio:
> Package: libgnome
> Version: 2.32.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-dpkg at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: multiarch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The following patch converts libgnome to multiarch directories and adds
> needed Multi-Arch: stanzas to control file. gnome-open binary is split to
> a separate package (libgnome2-bin) as exacutable binaries can't be multiarch
> (at least for now).
> 
> The attached patch probably brakes bonobo features of libgnome, unless libbonobo 
> is converted too. In fact, so far the patch has only been tested that the
> library is installed to the correct place for cross-compiling firefox.
> 
> Hence, I haven't set the "Patch" tag for this bug. The patch is ment for
> discussion rather than to be applied as is.

libgnome also dlopens various accessibility modules. See

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgnome/tree/libgnome/gnome-program.c#n1737

so libgnome should look in both the old and new, multi-arch paths.

Related to this is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636197

By converting libgnome to multi-arch and fixing #636197 we can finally unblock
the multi-arch enabledd gtk+2.0 from entering testing.

So I'd very much like to see libgnome converted proper.

Michael

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