"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:
I understand well, there are efforts to chose other ways, so ia32-apt-get
should not block the other ways. Well, which one will win at last will show
the future. IMO ia32-apt-get is a good way at the moment, and I think, even
Goswin would not mourne if some day a better way will be found and ia32-apt-
get will disappear. The future will show us.
ia32-apt-get will disapear and was always ment to disapear with
multiarch. I also always intended to make that transition as smooth as
possible. The multiarch people fear that ia32-apt-get might conflict
with multiarch, and currently they are right. The existing packages
would conflicht with future multiarch packages. But to resolve that
some of the multiarch features have to be added to dpkg first and then
ia32-apt-get can be updated to use those features for a smooth
upgrade. So from my side there is a solid plan in place how to do a
smooth upgrade to multiarch. No blocks in sight.