Proposal: allow *-static as multilib

[Bill Nottingham]

Michael Schwendt (mschwendt at gmail.com) said: 
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:13:29 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837901
> > > 
> > > has requested boost static libraries be shipped as multilib so that they
> > > can be used with "gcc -m32".
> > > 
> > > We historically haven't done this for anything besides glibc & libstdc++,
> > > but there's nothing technically preventing us from changing the policy in
> > > this manner. Opinions?
> > 
> > +1, do it.  -static probably ought to be treated the same as -devel
> 
> Static-only -devel packages with a virtual -static package name are
> shipped as multilib already anyway (and -static packages with a virtual
> -devel package name probably, too, in case mash takes a look at virtual
> package names).

OK, this is done as of mash-0.5.29-1, headed to rawhide now-ish.

Bill