Bug#542865: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories

Bug#542865: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:25:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:

> >> The current restriction is specific to libraries.  Don't we need to say
> >> that you can't put *any* files into any triplet directory that isn't
> >> for your package architecture?

> >         Hmm. My first read was that one could not put anything that was
> >  not a library in these directories, but perhaps it should be stated
> >  explicitly.

> I was expecting that we'd need to put anything that you might want to have
> simultaneous installs from multiple architectures in that directory, which
> would include, for instance, any shared library plugins or loadable
> modules, which aren't strictly libraries.

> We might have to duplicate some library helper programs as well, if for
> instance they communicate with the library using binary structures that
> are sensitive to sizeof(long).

Right, this was a bug in the proposed patch, not a deliberate statement that
only libraries belong in these directories.  (As I mentioned, the first
patch was something of a trial balloon.)  I think this updated patch should
cover everything for the first round.

Re-seconds?

Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>