Re: Mass bugfiling in preparation for multiarch
Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:48:18PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> writes:
>>
>> > Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
>> >> And by the way. We had basic multiarch support before sarge. This is
>> >> not "before". This is after it has already killed multiarch for 2
>> >> stable releases. If we don't get things moving in parallel it will
>> >> never be ready for squeeze either.
>> >
>> > Yeah, we clearly don't have multiarch support because of libraries
>> > installing files in the wrong place. Not because we don't have
>> > toolchain/dpkg support.
>>
>> We had patches for binutils and dpkg. We also had patches for most
>> essential packages. And everyone points the finger at someone else and
>> says: "Let them add their part first". Verry frustrating as you can
>> imagine.
>
> I am interested in seeing the dpkg patch.
The most current work should be on the multiarch alioth project. If
you do work on something please add it there.
http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=310911&group_id=30462&atid=411196
It is not as complete as it once was but against the most recent
source and with some previous mistakes corrected.
MfG
Goswin
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