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Re: network problems



On Wed, 08 May 2013 19:57:29 +0200
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

> Yes, unless you use multiarch.  There is still the unresolved issue
> that binNMUs break co-installability.  Packages which have been
> binNMU'ed on one architecture but not on another are not
> coinstallable at all, and even those where the version is the same,
> /usr/share/doc/$package/changelog.Debian.gz differs across
> architectures, making it necessary to use dpkg's --force-overwrite
> option.
> 
> I don't expect this to be fixed anytime soon, so if you are on amd64
> and want to run wine, skype or other 32-bit software, you had better
> stay on Wheezy.
> 

And there I was thinking about running Jessie/AMD64 on my
soon-to-be-upgraded computer (I currently use Sid/i386).
May using ia32-libs for 32-bit support in Jessie/Sid be a temporary
workaround while multiarch-binnmu problems are being sorted out?

BW,
Alex


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