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Re: multiarch conversion for packages with lib32* packages



On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 18:37 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 14:56 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > [...]
> >> FYI: Since I have recieved no objections from ftp-master nor the release
> >> team the plan for ia32-libs now looks as follows:
> >> 
> >> Ia32-libs becomes a transitional package depending on ia32-libs-i386.
> >> ia32-libs-i386 is a new transitional package with architecture i386 that
> >> depends on all the 32bit libs that used to be in ia32-libs.
> >> 
> >> Package: ia32-libs
> >> Architecture: amd64 ia64
> >> Depends: ia32-libs-i386
> >> Description: ia32-libs transitional package
> > [...]
> >
> > Why is this still built for ia64?  AFAIK we no longer have any support
> > for IA-32 emulation: hardware emulation was removed (since Montecito),
> > the kernel support bitrotted (prior to 2.6.32) and has been removed
> > (2.6.34), and the software emulator is non-free.
> >
> > Ben.
> 
> Because nobody told the ia32-libs team about that.

Well now you know.  Note, this wasn't a kernel team decision, it's an
upstream change that I wasn't aware of until recently.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because
they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett

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