Re: debian-policy is blocking multiarch

[Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Hello Goswin,

2010/1/25 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>:
> Steve Langasek (vorlon) informed me on irc that the policy changes for
> multiarch are commited now but not yet released and this is now blocking
> the progress of multiarch as in the case of eglibc:
>
> 11:21 < vorlon> mrvn: the change is committed; talk to the policy maintainers
>        about getting a new policy release out
>
> 11:22 < vorlon> I don't want maintainers uploading crackful pseudo-multiarch
>        packages willy-nilly because they decide "it must be ok if glibc is
>        doing it" and have no published policy to refer to
>
> As multiarch is a release goal[1] and the freeze is aproaching fast
> every day delayed makes it that much harder to reach the goal.

I believe that until dpkg/apt are usable for multiarch, this should
not be released. Maybe the right ping should be to the dpkg/apt
maintainers.

Regards,
-- 
 Héctor Orón

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