Please do no make libc6-i386 depend on ia32-libs
Hello,
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Modified:
> glibc-package/trunk/debian/changelog
> glibc-package/trunk/debian/control
> glibc-package/trunk/debian/control.in/i386
> Log:
> * Make libc6-i386 depends on ia32-libs (for the /usr/lib32 link and
> for the ld.so.conf configuration)
please do no make libc6-i386 depend on ia32-libs. It should be the other
way round, i.e. ia32-libs should depend on libc6-i386.
ia32-libs is a collection of 32-bit libraries which need a 32-bit libc6
to work but the 32-bit libc6 works without having the additional
libraries from ia32-libs installed. The "Depends: ia32-libs" will
install more than 40 additional libraries which are not necessary for
libc6-i386.
In my opinion, one of the most important reasons to introduce the
libc6-i386 package is that it will allow the gcc-4.x packages to drop
the Build-Depends on the ia32-libs binary package collection from i386.
The amd64 toolchain should not depend on packages from the i386 port.
Regards
Andreas Jochens
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