While trying to install a kde app for a foreign architecture. I noticed that while libkf5declarative5 is multi-arch: same it can only be installed for one architecture at a time, because it depends on kio and kio has no multi-arch field.

Unfortunately it seems kio contains a bunch of stuff in architecture-specific paths which look like they may be used from other packages, but also contains native binaries in /usr/bin , so it seems adding multi-arch support would require splitting the package.

Thoughts?

(I did not put a version number on the bug because this situation seems to be the same in all versions of Debian I looked at)

severity 942129 wishlist
thanks

Hi,

In data giovedì 10 ottobre 2019 19:57:05 CET, peter green ha scritto:

Multi-arch is in general not something upstream supports; we have some
changes mostly related to cross-building, but otherwise anything beyond
that is mostly "nice to have". Some of the KDE Frameworks (such as kio)
also have runtime components/daemons that can spawn D-Bus services
and/or load plugins. This makes the scenario you described above as hard
to do, and (personally speaking) not something to invest into unless
there is a strong demand for it.

Hence, I'm lowering the severity of this to wishlist.