Package: libffi-dev
Version: 3.0.9-2
Severity: grave
Tags: squeeze
Justification: renders package unusable

Header files are installed in /usr/include/i486-linux-gnu/ (and
similarly named directories on other architectures), not
/usr/include. Stops pygobject from compiling.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers maverick-updates
APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-2-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libffi-dev depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu5 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1 Manage installed documentation in
ii libffi5 3.0.9-2 Foreign Function Interface library

libffi-dev recommends no packages.

libffi-dev suggests no packages.

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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 16:00:37 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:

> Package: libffi-dev
> Version: 3.0.9-2
> Severity: grave
> Tags: squeeze

Please don't use distribution tags unless the bug is actually specific
to that branch (as opposed to the package version).

> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Header files are installed in /usr/include/i486-linux-gnu/ (and
> similarly named directories on other architectures), not
> /usr/include. Stops pygobject from compiling.
>
and I suspect this is only true on ubuntu maverick because it uses i686
instead of i486 so this isn't in cpp's search path. Not the case in
debian.

Cheers,
Julien