On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:57:07PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > Bitten by every second release changing where sparc64 stuff is at the > > > sparc platform and almost each of those transitions breaking my systems > > > in some way, I'd prefer if everything possible is done to avoid > > > changing it again with the next or next but one release again. > > I frankly have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not aware that 64-bit > > libraries were ever placed anywhere other than [...]/lib64 on sparc, > For example take a look at woody: > |>dpkg-deb -c fakeroot_0.4.4-9.2_sparc.deb | grep 64 > |drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/ > |drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/ > |-rw-r--r-- root/root 24552 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0.0.1 > |lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0 -> libfakeroot.so.0.0.1 > |lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-05-12 05:51 ./usr/lib/64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so -> libfakeroot.so.0.0.1 > |>dpkg-deb -c libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb | grep \/64 > |lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2005-01-07 17:49 ./usr/lib/64 -> ../lib64 > |lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2005-01-07 17:49 ./lib/64 -> ../lib64 > I can guess you can imagine what happend when upgrading in half of the cases... Oh; so "every second release" -> "one release, 7 years ago, in which there was a bug". -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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