On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:06:28PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > On 05/28/2011 03:32 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 14:48, Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote: > >> It seems that the main blocker at the moment is bug #618288 in apt. > > Fixed in branch for a while, just not yet uploaded. [0] > > But it can't be a blocker as dpkg doesn't has full support for multiarch > > in unstable currently - and if you can't install foreign packages its pretty > > unlikely that you will hit this bug. ;) > Can you please point me to the bug that still needs to be fixed in dpkg > to be able to install foreign packages? dpkg cross-install support has not yet been merged into dpkg mainline at all. We have a clear roadmap for modifying library packages that will let them be usable in a multiarch context as soon as dpkg support is there, but there's no bug report for dpkg since it's a pending feature merge. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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