Improving the way we select multilib packages for trees

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 18:19 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 14:23 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > What does this mean to you as a package maintainer?  In a lot of cases,
> > hopefully nothing.  But there are cases where header files included in
> > packages are generated at build-time and have an architecture or build
> > specific nature.  These conflicts will need to be fixed similar to how
> > things have been fixed for runtime library issues -- either moving files
> > around or removing the cause for the difference.  If there is a valid
> > reason for them to be different, then you might want to explore having a
> > common stub header that includes the different headers as appropriate
> > (eg, how /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h is handled)
[snip]
> I'll work on making the full output with the exact conflicts in each
> package available later tonight but wanted to get info out about which
> packages were problematic.  Also, I plan to start filing bugs on
> packages which haven't been fixed on May 16th.

I've now gone and filed a ton of bugs about this and made them all block
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192658

Note that these need to be fixed in advance of the FC6 test1 freeze
(which is currently scheduled for June 7th).  

Jeremy