Bug#731082: Processed: severity of 731082 is normal
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 01:43:00PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Debian Bug Tracking System wrote...
>
> > Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
> >
> > > severity 731082 normal
>
> Care to elaborate?
>
> In my opinion, this bug's severity rather deserves an increase to
> something RC-ish. Or: As long as this issue is not resolved, I will
> deny Debian has any kind of "full" or "complete" multiarch support.
The GNU libc has never been designed to work in a multiarch situation,
hence this kind of bugs (and I am sure there are been plenty more). We
can't therefore consider that kind of bug as important or critical.
Debian has decided to go for multiarch, and put most of the burden on
the glibc team. We are happy to support multiarch, but we can't make
this higher priority than other bugs affecting regular usages of the
libc.
In short we will work on this bug if we have been able to fix all the
other important bugs. That said, if someone interested by multiarch can
provide us a patch, we will included happily (of course provided it is
not too hackish).
> Rather it will be "working rather by chance on a small subset of
> possible architecture combinations".
It is already the case, as the name of dynamic loader prevents a lot of
cases. Multiarch has been mostly designed with amd64/i386/arm in mind.
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