Control: tags -1 = wontfix
On 2017-03-06 23:38 -0300, Tiago Daitx wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
>>> Please consider applying the attached patch to add x32 packages to
>>> ncurses. This patch has been a part of Ubuntu since late 2012 [1].
>>
>> ncurses work fine on x32, natively and/or via multiarch. Is there a real
>> reason to add multi_lib_ packages?
>
> Sorry, I forgot to add an extra comment about this particular patch.
>
> I'm simply trying to reduce the diff between Ubuntu and Debian and
> these patches have been carried on for a long while and these extra
> pieces cause constant merge failures on the Ubuntu side.
>
> In the case of x32 I'm really not sure if the patches are still
> required, they have been added long ago. I'm actually interested in
> your point of view as a maintainer - and this is the part I forgot to
> ask you about: do you believe the x32 patches add any value to the
> package nowadays? They seem to be no longer required.
I guess this boils down to the question to what extent Canonical/Ubuntu
want to support x32. Unlike Debian, they don't have an x32 port but
instead added libx32 multilib packages for the most popular libraries
(zlib, ncurses, readline). Although this effort seems to have mostly
stopped for now, since there is no libx32readline7 package while there
used to be libx32readline6 in trusty and xenial.
>From my POV these packages are a huge maintenance burden for very
little gain, and I am neither willing nor able to support them.
Cheers,
Sven
