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Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]



On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:00:36AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> after fiddling around with the multiarch support for amd64 for some
> time now it looks like our developement plans and ideas for amd64 (and
> hopefully the rest too) have stabelized. Since this involves several
> changes to key components I would like to give everyone the heads up
> about what we try to do and how we plan to do it. One minor change to
> the /var/lib/dpkg/status file I would like to get implemented and
> included in sarge. 

Regardless of the merits (or demerits) of this proposal, I object to
trying to implement any changes to /var/lib/dpkg/status before the sarge
release.  We are supposed to be in the last stages of the release cycle,
and this is not the time to be trying to sneak changes to such a
fundamental piece of our package system into the release.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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