Bug#596899: Please unblock ia32-libs/20101012
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:21:19 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 15:41:56 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>
> > As for ia32-libs, I would be willing to sponsor it but I don't think we
> > should be making uploads for such trivial cleanup operations, is this
> > really necessary to get ia32-libs unblocked?
> >
> No. I just didn't want to unblock it until the wine issue was resolved.
>
> I'm still not convinced ia32-libs-dev is a useful/sane thing to ship.
> Providing a working runtime environment for 32bit programs is one thing.
> Providing a build environment is another entirely, and the way it has to
> mangle .la files (and now .pc too) makes me wonder what other sort of
> brokenness it lets through.
Why is it that ia32-libs provides all of these 32-bit libs as a
monolithic package anyway? Wouldn't the saner solution be to provide
each desired 32-bit lib from the original source package for that lib
(for example bzip2 provides lib32bz2, lib32bz2-dev, etc)? In that case
ia32-libs is could just be a metapackage, rather than the mess it is
currently. Obviously this solution will need to be deferred to wheezy
(perhaps as a release goal?) since time is short for squeeze.
> I probably won't object to this if the
> current breakage gets fixed though, because I'm getting tired of this
> package and would rather do something useful instead.
What else is currently known broken?
> alsa-plugins also build-depends on ia32-libs, does it need a fix for the
> new stuff too? what about libvdpau?
I'll check these later tonight.
Mike
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