Re: Bug#535645: Wrongfull removal of ia32-libs-tools
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:46:38AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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?
Essentially correct, yes. The fallback would be to /assume/ they exist, and
have each multiarch library package add Conflicts against the expected
biarch package name; I don't accept that this is an appropriate burden to
impose on individual library maintainers as part of the multiarch
implementation, which should otherwise only require a small debian/rules
change and a single Multi-Arch: yes field.
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