Bug#596899: Please unblock ia32-libs/20101012
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:43:00 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> No. Your suggestion makes a mess out of a thousand packages. At least
> the crap we have now is contained.
Well, it's more like one hundred packages, but nevertheless, a very
large number. Obviously its a trade off, just like everything else in
this world. Either take the easy road and continue to provide this
messy monolithic package that doesn't get any security updates, or
take the hard road to get something more supportable but forces
additional work on 100 maintainers. I personally think the latter is
more appropriate/ideal even though its more work. Obviously opinions
will vary.
Mike
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