Bug#596899: Please unblock ia32-libs/20101012
Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
The long-term solution is multiarch and allowing people to install 32-bit
packages directly on 64-bit systems, which is why people haven't been
willing to much effort into making the current system work better. We
keep expecting multiarch to be in the next Debian release.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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