Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 07:53:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Getting multiarch into debian will be a huge undertaking and is likely
>> to take years to complete. That adds to the unwillingness to wait for
>> it before getting amd64 added.
>
> I understand this.
>
> That's why I'm skeptical about it being an adequate replacement for
> biarch. [The biarch is of most value at transition time.]
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.
> That said, although you call what you have right now "pure64", you do
> include some biarch support. It seems to me that with only slightly
> more work (and a bit of tolerance for ugliness), you could be providing
> a more useful bootstrap biarch.
Providing support to run 32bit binaries under amd64 is trivial. We
already do that.
We are no way near what biarch means. Not from the dpkg capabilities
(and renaming of packages) nor from the library placements.
If it where that simple biarch would have just started a buildd and
risen to 3000 packages ported overnight too.
MfG
Goswin
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