Re: Interest in ia32-libs for squeeze-lts
On 07/11/2014 02:55 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> All,
>
> I was wondering if there's interest for the ia32-libs package to be
> maintained in squeeze-lts.
>
> The ia32-libs package contains 32 bit versions of various libraries which
> can be installed on amd64, so you can run 32 bit applications that do not
> have a 64 bit equivalent on your 64 bit system. It's a pre-muliarch
> kludge.
>
> Of course the packages contained in ia32-libs should be kept up to date
> with security updates. Because of the unwieldy nature of the package, the
> strategy in regular Squeeze was to update ia32-libs on every stable point
> update, to roll in any security updates from that past period. I can
> remain to do the same in squeeze-lts, that is, every few months or so,
> rebuild ia32-libs with the latest releases from squeeze-lts and upload
> that to squeeze-lts.
>
> But as said, I'd like to know if there's actually any interest for this
> package before I start doing that.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Thijs
Well, having it up-to-date is good, but why rebuilding it systematically
every month? Can't you just check what has changed, and see if that's
needed?
Cheers,
Thomas
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