apitrace-libs.i686 missing in x86_64 repos

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:40:16 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:

> >> You could ask releng to add apitrace-libs to the multilib whitelist:
> >>
> >>      https://pagure.io/mash/new_issue
> >>
> >> However, I have to wonder, why wouldn't the library have a -devel
> >> package? Is there no way to link against that library?
> > Looks like a package mistake:
> >
> >    http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/apitrace.git/plain/apitrace.spec
> >
> > The contents of apitrace-libs are files below %{_libdir}/%{name}/ which
> > seem to be plugin libraries:
> >
> >    http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=6776085
> >    
> >      /usr/lib64/apitrace/
> > 	/usr/lib64/apitrace/scripts/*.py
> >      /usr/lib64/apitrace/wrappers/*.so
> > 	
> > Plus, there's a circular dependency between apitrace <-> apitrace-libs,
> > so splitting off the subpackage is kind of strange. Nothing else depends
> > on the apitrace-libs package.
> The background of the split is #1068620 - installing the 32bit wrapper 
> libraries allowes you to trace 32bit apps on 64bit systems.

Well, then adding the i686 build to the mash x86_64 multilib compose whitelist
cannot be avoided -- as it's needed to really fix #1068620.