[Bug 1122120] Re: Multiarchify tcl8.5

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

Inspecting the patch, it looks mostly fine.

The other piece of the puzzle is that tcltk-defaults should be then
transitioned to be Architecture:any and I believe also have matching
M-A: stanzas (?!), but I'll check about that. This patch got me thinking
if we have arch-qualified provides or not =)))

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Title:
  Multiarchify tcl8.5

Status in Tcl - the Tool Command Language:
  New
Status in “tcl8.5” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  TCL needs 'multiarching' so that it has co-installable libraries and
  config scripts for packages to cross-build with. e.g sqlite3, but in
  fact anything with tcl language bindings (45 packages build-dep on
  tcl8.5, and 65 on tcl-dev).

  The attached patch provides such mutiarchification, by:

  qEssentially the .so and .a libs, and the tclConfig.sh config script
  are all moved into multiarch directories in the existing tcl8.5-dev
  and a new tcl8.5-lib package for the runtime library. Both these
  packages are Multi-Arch: same and thus co-installable.

  All the other files remain in the tcl8.5 package, although there may
  be arch-specific files in there which should move? That package is MA:
  foreign as tcl is able to run scripts in an arch-independent fashion.

  This has been tested for armhf and arm64 cross-building and seems to
  work OK.

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