libxcomposite-dev is not Multi-Arch compatible

[Po-Hsu Lin]

This is an old bug since 2012, upstream bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689082

Tested on Xenial, when trying to install libxcomposite-dev:i386, the 64bit version will be removed:

$ sudo apt-get install libxcomposite-dev:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libxcomposite1:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libxcomposite-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxcomposite-dev:i386 libxcomposite1:i386
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

thanks, uploaded the fix (applied to git in mid-2013 :) to debian

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libxcomposite - 1:0.4.4-2

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libxcomposite (1:0.4.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Julien Cristau ]
  * Mark libxcomposite-dev as Multi-Arch: same (closes: #689082). Hopefully
    the docbook-generated manpage won't be too unpredictable. (LP: #1657385)

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jan 2017 07:36:39 +0200