Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ...
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
>> Maybe, but biarch are what we have now, and what can be made to work. I asked
>> this same question 6+ month ago, and you gave me the same reply, and
>> multi-arch has not progressed an inch since then.
>
> This is wrong. Sven, please stop saying that nothing changed when you're
> simply annoyed that it's not finished yet.
>
> In the last 6 months we had:
> - multiarch support added to ld by Aurelien jarno
2 line patch pending for a year before that plus one new idea to add
/lib/ldconfig/.
Overall just a better way than editing ld.so.conf.
> - a report from HP/Canonical about how to go forward
A summary of past consensus plus some new ideas for a new
dpkg. Nothing new for !dpkg packages.
> - another proposition from Goswin van Brederlow (see his recent work and
> bugreports on -dpkg)
Mostly resubmitting stuff that has been around for years cleaned up
for sids dpkg. This time split into small chunks that hopefully will
get accepted with the new dpkg team.
> Cheers,
Overall the progress, if any, is far from encouraging.
MfG
Goswin
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