[Bug 1122120] Re: Multiarchify tcl8.5

[Colin Watson]

Matthias, any chance you could make this a separate bug?  This bug
already has quite a few tasks and it's going to get quite cumbersome if
we keep reopening bits of it.

vim seems like a very tenuous use case, anyway.  I can't think of a
reason I'd want to install it from a foreign architecture.

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Title:
  Multiarchify tcl8.5

Status in “tcl8.5” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “tcl8.6” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “tcltk-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “tk8.5” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “tk8.6” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “tcl8.5” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “tk8.5” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  TCL needs 'multiarching' so that it has co-installable libraries and
  config scripts for packages to cross-build with. e.g sqlite3, but in
  fact anything with tcl language bindings (45 packages build-dep on
  tcl8.5, and 65 on tcl-dev).

  The attached patch provides such mutiarchification, by:

  qEssentially the .so and .a libs, and the tclConfig.sh config script
  are all moved into multiarch directories in the existing tcl8.5-dev
  and a new tcl8.5-lib package for the runtime library. Both these
  packages are Multi-Arch: same and thus co-installable.

  All the other files remain in the tcl8.5 package, although there may
  be arch-specific files in there which should move? That package is MA:
  foreign as tcl is able to run scripts in an arch-independent fashion.

  This has been tested for armhf and arm64 cross-building and seems to
  work OK.

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