Bug#690822: caribou: architecture specific paths in arch-all package

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 18 octobre 2012 à 05:14 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : 
> Since caribou installs the introspection files and python modules in the
> default system paths, it seems to me that it actually doesn't really
> matter that much that GI_TYPELIB_PATH and PYTHONPATH point to
> non-existing directories.

If packages from another architecture are installed in these paths (e.g.
for cross-building), the paths will exist and this is going to fail in
spectacular ways.

> We could just as well drop those environment variables (including
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

I agree this is the best course of action.

> So it's mostly a cosmetic issue, imo, definitely not RC.

I’m not sure it doesn’t need to be RC. In all cases it would be better
to fix that for wheezy.

Cheers,
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