Re: RFS: ia32-libs split packages

[Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>]

Goswin von Brederlow skrev:
> Hi,
>
> the ia32-libs package will be split into seperate source packages (95
> alltogether). Since my comaintainer is currently bussy I'm looking for
> a sponsor for the first wave of those packages. The main converter
> package and the 5 packages that are ia64 only in ia32-libs.
>
> The packages are on mentors.debian.net (or getting there as you read):
>
> ia32-libs-tools (0.2) - the converter package
>
> ia32-alsa-lib
> ia32-gcc-4.3
> ia32-glibc
> ia32-ncurses
> ia32-zlib
>
> These packages are somewhat special in that amd64 builds them natively
> as 32bit but ia64 can't build them and needs converted packages.

It seems to me the changelogs in these packages are such that building 
these packages would generate .changes files that close the same bugs 
that original packages do, which is probably not desirable.