On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:56:10AM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: > 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. I don't see any reason for the package manager changes to block the Policy update. Even if the multiarch field is not yet supported, it doesn't hurt anything to have packages using those directories (*if* they're used correctly). -- 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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