[Bug 900421] Re: Please convert libsigc++-2.0 for multiarch

[Evan Broder]

** Description changed:

  Attached is a patch to libsigc++-2.0 which transitions it to use
  multiarch library paths.
  
  The patch also marks the -dev package as multi-arch: same, which is safe
  as none of the header files are generated at build time, so they should
  be identical across architectures.
  
- The most significant blocked to converting packages to multiarch is the
+ The most significant blocker to converting packages to multiarch is the
  presence of .la files which reference a library in its dependency_libs
  line. Debian has made cleaning up these .la files a release goal, and is
  tracking the presence of such problematic .la files at
  <http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt>.
  
  According to that list, the two packages blocking libsigc++-2.0's
  transition are python-visual and subtitleeditor. subtitleeditor has
  already been fixed and both Debian and Ubuntu, and I uploaded a fix for
  python-visual a few days ago, so by that metric this conversion should
  be safe.

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Title:
  Please convert libsigc++-2.0 for multiarch

Status in “libsigc++-2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “libsigc++-2.0” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Attached is a patch to libsigc++-2.0 which transitions it to use
  multiarch library paths.

  The patch also marks the -dev package as multi-arch: same, which is
  safe as none of the header files are generated at build time, so they
  should be identical across architectures.

  The most significant blocker to converting packages to multiarch is
  the presence of .la files which reference a library in its
  dependency_libs line. Debian has made cleaning up these .la files a
  release goal, and is tracking the presence of such problematic .la
  files at <http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt>.

  According to that list, the two packages blocking libsigc++-2.0's
  transition are python-visual and subtitleeditor. subtitleeditor has
  already been fixed and both Debian and Ubuntu, and I uploaded a fix
  for python-visual a few days ago, so by that metric this conversion
  should be safe.

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