On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:31:31AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Am 18.07.2011 20:02, schrieb Steve Langasek: > > I will probably be doing a live demo of cross-building a Debian source > > package using only mainline .deb packages (whether this can be done on > > Debian or Ubuntu is not yet clear, it will probably depend on what happens > > at DebCamp). That, and multiarch in general, is a new, cool feature, so > > perhaps that qualifies? > Many thanks for your feedback, that surely does qualify! I'll try to > prepare an announcement about that and get back to you (and the release > team) when I have something to show ;) > But as I just have a general overvies and before I'm writing something > wrong it would help me if you could summarize in one or two paragraphs > what multiarch is and why it is useful for our users. Rather than writing something from scratch, I refer you to the multiarch wiki pages for this summary :) http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/TheCaseForMultiarch -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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