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Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues

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On 2021-09-11 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> GLib uses a generated postinst where #MULTIARCH# gets replaced
> by the multiarch tuple of the package. As far as I know, this
> is going to be necessary for any multiarch library that will use
> my clean-up-unmanaged-libraries script, because dpkg tells us the
> DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE and DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH, but there is no
> DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_MULTIARCH.

> I'll open a separate wishlist bug for DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_MULTIARCH,
> because that would be useful to have - GLib needed it anyway, even before
> the cleanup was implemented, to handle GIO plugins.

Hello,

dpkg-buildpackage sets DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH but afaiui
one cannot /rely/ on it being set since it is not listed in policy 4.9.
I will probably make sure it is set in debian/rules and use
#ENV.DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH#

cu Andreas

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Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2021-09-11 18:10 +0200
  Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 19:30 +0200
    Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2021-09-12 15:00 +0200
      Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 16:20 +0200

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