Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Jaime Ochoa Malagón <chptma@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>>>> "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.
>>> there are good news :-)
>>
>> If ftp-master lets me.
>
> I thought 'ia32-apt-get' was removed by accident, and you were merely
> waiting for a sponsor to get it added back.  Was it actually removed
> intentionally?
>
>
> Dave W.

It appears that way. You can read about it on Bug#535645 and the
debian-ctte ML.

MfG
        Goswin