Re: multiarch conversion for packages with lib32* packages

[Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>]

Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:

> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On 2012-03-24 10:50 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 09:48:58AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>> On 2012-03-24 04:04 +0100, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>>>> > One issue not covered is what to do if your package already builds
>>>> > 32-bit libraries on a 64-bit system by building 32-bit explicitly and
>>>> > packaging as lib32whatever.
>>>> 
>>>> The lib32* packages need to built as long as they have reverse (build)
>>>> dependencies.  I suppose most of them should go away in the long term,
>>>> but this is not going to happen in wheezy.
>>>
>>> All of lib32icu's rdepends seem to have already dropped *32* builds, so
>>> it can be removed right now.
>>
>> Oh, indeed.  Somehow I assumed that ia32-libs would build-depend on
>> lib32icu-dev, but it doesn't.

Thanks for all the replies.  I'll convert icu as soon as I have time
(hopefully in the next couple of weeks) and drop the lib32 packages.
This will greatly simplify icu's build.

-- 
Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>