Bug#379090: Still no news on 64bit i386 kernels
* Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) [061031 15:01]:
> Frederik Schueler <fs@debian.org> writes:
> I asked this before and haven't yet recieved an answere:
>
> What does w-b do when the amd64 build uploads amd64+i386 64bit kernel
> debs but not 32bit. Afaik the package should be detected as incomplete
> and set to "needs-build" for i386. i386 then builds the 32bit kernels
> only and uploads them.
As soon as there are binary packages for i386, wanna-build marks i386 as
installed. How should it detect otherwise if e.g. a kernel was dropped?
> > The "real" solution for this still is multiarch. I haven't heard much
> > of it since a couple of months, is anyone still actively working on it?
>
> Which means, at a minimum, changes to debian-cd and D-I to include the
> amd64 packages on i386 and the linux64 boot option and a wrapper
> package for apt/aptitude/dpkg to make the amd64 debs appear and
> installable.
Which won't happen anyways for etch.
Cheers,
Andi
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