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Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64



> > That's why I'm skeptical about it being an adequate replacement for
> > biarch.  [The biarch is of most value at transition time.]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 09:17:04PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Biarch is way worse. It needs _every_ package to change its
> Build-Depends at the very least or amd64 needs to have another
> binary-i386 port on top of the normal one.
>
> With biarch either 32bit or 64bit debs have to be renamed which
> cascades through the Build-Depends and Depends to all packages.

You don't need every package to be biarch to have a biarch
system.  

What you've got now, and are calling "pure64" is pretty close to all
that's needed for biarch.

-- 
Raul



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