On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:04:39PM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: > severity 484599 important > tags 484599 wontfix > thanks If you want this to work, you need to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED], too.
> > Hi! > > May I ask you for the motivation to open this bug? > > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:44:50AM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > > ia32-libs contains several sources of software that are already packaged > > and available from the Debian archive. > > [...] > > None of the software contained into ia32-libs are intended to be > > packaged this way. > > There are only 2 ways of dealing with this: > > - fix multiarch blockers (binutils) and finish the implementation (not > for lenny anymore, sorry) > > - implement biarch like RedHat and SuSE did, putting all 64bit libs to > /lib64 and 32bit libs to /lib, and patching dpkg et all to cope with > this, allowing amd64 to install both amd64 and i386 packages (no way, > sorry - 4 years too late for this) > > But opening RC bugs pointing to the obvious mess doesn't help neither our > users nor my blood pressure. > > Regards > Frederik Schüler > > -- > ENOSIG
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