apitrace-libs.i686 missing in x86_64 repos

[Sandro Mani]

On 25.09.2015 12:19, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 12:02 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Got bug #1266181 filed about apitrace.i686 missing in the x86_64
>> repos.
>> The reporter probably meant apitrace-libs.i686, which in the past was
>> indeed installable on x86_64. Any ideas what the reasons can be that
>> the package disappeared? Suppose something about the "mash" step, but
>> that's as far as I get.
> The way multilib works is that mash will get all the *-devel packages
> from i686 and add them to the x86_64 repository, along with all their
> dependencies.
>
> In your case, you apitrace package doesn't generate any -devel
> subpackage.
>
> If it did, mash would include it for multilib, and as the -devel
> packages usually depend on the -libs package, the -libs would also get
> included.
>
Thanks for the explanation. Hmm so I suppose I was mistaken about 
apitrace-libs.i686 being available on x86_64 in the past, since apitrace 
never had a -devel package. Is there any other option short of 
introducing a dummy -devel package?