Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:43:04PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> > now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks
> > like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy.
> > !!!HURAY!!!
> > The problem now is the transition:
> > 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible
> >[...]
> > What this means is that users that want to use multiarch should remove
> > ia32-libs (and lib32* really) soonest.
> Couldn't you make ia32-libs a meta-package pulling the multiarch version
> of the libs it used to include ?
This would require something like
Depends: libpam0g:i386, libssl098:i386, [...]
and this syntax is not yet supported (intentionally, because there's a lot
of policy that needs to be put in place before we allow such things).
Ubuntu, faced with the same issue, kludged a bit to make upgrades possible.
Package: ia32-libs
Architecture: amd64
Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch
Package: ia32-libs-multiarch
Architecture: i386
Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: libpam0g, [...]
This doesn't require us to support :arch syntax for dependencies anywhere
yet; it just requires that the i386 arch is enabled via multiarch, and that
the package manager is able to resolve the fact that ia32-libs' dependency
is satisfied by the only copy of ia32-libs-multiarch available, the i386
one.
However, this still introduces at least some of the same policy problems -
for instance, britney has to be taught that this is ok if you want to be
able to migrate this package to testing automatically. And you need a
multiarch-capable package manager installed and configured *before* you can
upgrade this package, so that requires a two-step upgrade of some variety:
either holding ia32-libs back until after the dist-upgrade, or upgrading the
package manager before the dist-upgrade.
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