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Re: Migration path for 'Multi-Arch:allowed' packages



* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> [120613 23:56]:
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 12:47 +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > I added a user-oriented HOWTO to the multiarch doc-collection last
> > month as there seemed to be a shortage of such docs to point to that
> > weren't cryptic specifications, or talking mostly about
> > cross-building. It may be a useful place to point people, or just lift
> > the good bits from it:
> > 
> > http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO

Very nice!  Thanks.

> That's quite good, but for release notes I think we would need something
> that more tersely explains what multiarch means and that you *must*
> enable it if you have certain packages installed on certain
> architectures.

Also, please be explicit about what it means to "enable" multiarch in
this context.  I presume, but am not certain, that it means to add the
correct foreign architecture (i386 in the case of wine-unstable?),
modify sources.list if needed, and do aptitude update (or equivalent).
If this is wrong or I am missing a step, I would appreciate
enlightenment!

...Marvin


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