Re: libxcb-backports only for amd64
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> > Christoph Mühlmann <christoph@nagnag.de> (2014-10-14):
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> actually it seems the libxcb-backports are only available for amd64, not
> >> for i386?
> >> Updating in a multiarch-installation removes many installed libraries
> >> from the i386-architecture and some (third party) packages, see below...
> >
> > See build status:
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libxcb&suite=wheezy-backports
> >
> > libxcb build-depends on missing:
> > - xcb-proto (>= 1.10)
> >
> > Looks like the uploader (cc'd) forgot some bits? :)
>
> xcb-proto is already in the backports NEW queue.
>
> It's probably worth pointing out that a dist-upgrade with
> wheezy-backports specified as the target release isn't how backports
> is meant to work. Christoph, you should be selectively installing
> packages from wheezy-backports based on what you actually need, rather
> than upgrading all packages on your system to their wheezy-backports
> version (which is not tested and not guaranteed to work at all).
And rejected. It would help everybody if you get uploads right on the first
time and if you would wait with upload until all dependencys are available in
bpo.
Alex
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