clone 491167 -1
retitle -1 strace: please provide separate strace64 package
severity -1 wishlist
thanks

Hi!

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:25PM +0200, Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote:
> strace pulls in libc6-amd64 on my systems which is useless on most of my
> current desktops (Pentium 2 at university, Sempron at work and Athlon XP
> at home).
 
Strace ships a second, 64bit binary to trace 64bit processes on a system
with i386 userland and 64bit kernel.

> Is this really necessary? I assume the purpose of libc6-amd64 - like 
> libc6-i686 - is to let owners of the appropriate hardware to be able to
> install those packages?

Yes it is. The alternative would be an strace64 package for the 3
concerned architectures. I'll ponder about this option.


Best regards
Frederik Schüler

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