Re: Bug#796660: Binaries in binary packages match the architecture
* Simon McVittie:
> On 23/08/15 11:31, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> For example, shipping i386 binaries instead of amd64 binaries is not
>> acceptable, even though these programs might run with the default
>> Debian kernel.
>
> This does not match current practice in all cases: multilib (lib32gcc,
> etc.) has a lot of i386 libraries in x86_64 packages and similar
> situations. Things like wine and mingw also don't work without foreign
> binaries, although those at least aren't binaries from a Debian
> architecture.
Shouldn't those go away because we now have true multiarch?
> Is there a problem you are aiming to solve with this requirement? Do any
> maintainers not realise that packaging wrong-architecture binaries
> without a good reason is undesired?
Yes, smlnj.
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