Re: Searching for app availability before install

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

tony mancill <tony@mancill.com> writes:

> Alan Ianson wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, about 97% of the 32bit debian packages are available for amd64 and the 
>> rest are being worked on. There are only two packages I have missed (lha and 
>> cdrdao).
>
> BTW, cdrdao works fine on amd64, we're merely waiting (for the past 14
> months) for the Debian maintainer to apply some patches and upload a new
> version of the packge.  You can quite easily build your own package by
> applying the patch found in the BTS at:
>
> 	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=249642
>
> HTH,
> tony

We are starting with sarge-unsuported (I think thats the directory
name now) which will contain sarge packages that need patches to work
and which are without official security support (due to us patching
them). cdrdao will be uploaded there for example.

MfG
        Goswin