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Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?



On Mon Jun 29 20:18, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > Figure out an acceptable option 4.
> > > 
> > > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread.
> > 
> > Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug),
> > but all that "multiarch" blabla and nothing is going forward in this
> > direction, so this is not a reasonable solution until nobody steps
> > forward and does the work for that.
> 
> There is work going on recently. Steve Langasek drafted a plan that he
> wants to bring forward in Ubuntu Karmic Koala and it has been reviewed by
> Guillem Jover, the dpkg maintainer. Guillem also has plans to make it a
> reality inside Debian but I don't know of any timeframe.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec

I have offered to help with this, if someone can tell me what needs to
be done.

This is something I'd hoped would be pushed out through Debian to other
distributions, not yet another thing which Ubuntu innovates and then we
merge back in later.

Matt
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Matthew Johnson

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