Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> 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
>
> Cheers,
Too bad they did that without involving the people already working on
multiarch via the alioth project.
They messed up some finer details, broke the existing patches, made
the whole thing need a full release cycle for a transition due to
DEBIAN/control format changes and have a broen plan for -dev packages.
Guillem Jover is also blocking the inclusion of already existing
patches for multiarch.
Frustrated,
Goswin
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