Bug#535645: Wrongfull removal of ia32-libs-tools
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> Per <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/07/msg00121.html>,
> ia32-apt-get also imposes other obligations on a multiarch
> implementation, which no consensus has been reached on:
>
> The upgrade path to multiarch is for the multiarch i386 deb to
> Conflicts/Replaces: <package that contains the same files>. Which
> means ia32-libs or ia32-libs-gtk for the old system or ia32-<package>
> for the ia32-apt-get one. And again with ia32-apt-get there is a huge
> advantage. As packages convert to multiarch they can be droped in
> ia32-apt-get on a case by case basis and replaced by the multiarch
> one. Meaning users don't have to wait for and update 200 packages in a
> single step.
>
> So more than being a stop-gap, I think this tool is actively harmful to
> the rollout of multiarch.
The specific problem here, judging from the thread, is that these tools
create packages in the ia32-* namespace that aren't in the archive, and
people who then install those packages on their system will have trouble
with upgrades unless real multiarch packages add Conflicts with them? But
the library maintainers both don't know that they exist, and would need to
add Conflicts on packages that have never been in the archive?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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