On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:31:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:36:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Specifically, the plan is that any package in wheezy shipping a runtime > > library in a multiarch directory should declare a Pre-Depends on the > > metapackage 'multiarch-support'. This package will be built from eglibc > > source, and for each architecture it will depend on the appropriate version > > of libc that implements support for the corresponding multiarch lib > > directory.[1] > > > I'm reasonably confident that we have this right, having discussed this with > > the release team and tested it under "live fire" in Ubuntu; but as Jonathan > > Nieder rightly points out in the policy bug, policy asks for Pre-Depends to > > be discussed on debian-devel, not just on debian-release. > > > Does anyone see a better way to achieve this result, that I've overlooked? > > Will adding this pre-depends on multiarch-support cause any problems that we > > haven't yet identified? > > So we have a consensus of one here on the list? I should make a point of > always bringing up policy proposals in parallel to ongoing threads about > network manager, apparently it's the easiest way to meet the requirement for > posting to debian-devel without having to actually discuss anything ;) Well, what did you expect? This is a rather complicated thing to assess, and you've discussed it already with those who are well versed regarding such issues. In fact, when I first read your intentention to add a Pre-Depends on a large amount of packages, I figured that quite a lot can break. We all know how Pre-Depends makes it harder for apt* and dpkg to find a sensible order. But, since I cannot try it here *and* you already included the maintainers of dpkg, eglibc, etc. and the release team, who am I to object to their assessment? IOW, I guess you can read the lack of responses as silent nodding... (And now it's even easier to start a flame war about the knowledge of aforementioned well versed developers. :-P) Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <jhr@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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