On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:56:42PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > libnss-myhostname and libnss-extrausers ship the biarch versions of the > > module in the same package. libnss_mdns builds a separate lib32nss-mdns > > biarch package, and biarch libnss_ldap is only available in ia32-libs. So > > this is FUD. > Earlier today I had converted libnss-myhostname to multi-arch, so the > package will only ship one module per package. > I tend to agree with Bernhard that it would be nice if it were made easy > for the user (e.g. a user on amd64 who runs some application in wine and > is surprised that the foo.local addresses stop working). But what can we > do? I don’t see any “easy” solution that would work right away. Maybe > add a new field or new value to the Multi-Arch field indicating that > this package should be installed for each foreign architecture set in > dpkg.conf, if possible? (Does not sound good to me, but maybe its a > discussion starter.) I agree it would be nice, but this seems to map to the (long unsolved) problem of conditional depends - where you want A to pull in B only if C is also installed. If you solve that, you've got the NSS module question solved as well. -- 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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