Bug#535515: Please add /lib32 and /usr/lib32 on i386

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.9-18
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

libraries like libX11.so.6.2.0 look for locales in
/usr/lib/X11/locale. Other libraries look for plugins in
/usr/lib/package. It would be nice if those packages could be compiled
to use /usr/lib32/X11/locale and /usr/lib32/package on i386 so the
same binary will run on i386 and amd64. This would be much simpler
than adding support to use both lib and lib32 to various programs.

Simply adding two links to /lib and /usr/lib on i386 will sufice.

MfG
	Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers transitional-i386
  APT policy: (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'unstable-i386'), (1, 'experimental-i386'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.4-frosties-1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.0-10 GCC support library

libc6 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
pn  glibc-doc                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  locales                       2.9-18     GNU C Library: National Language (

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