On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:15:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> writes:
> > I'm writing to you in the hope that you can facilitate resolving a > > grievance I have with Joerg Jaspert in his roles as ftp-master and his > > decision to remove ia32-libs-tools in the name of "The Project". > [...] > I'm not saying this means we should do nothing, just asking to help > understand the overall context better: Does the debate over this package > become moot if Debian adopts full multiarch? In other words, is this a > stop-gap solution while waiting for multiarch, or do you see it as having > an ongoing purpose even in a multiarch world? Per <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/07/msg00121.html>, ia32-apt-get also imposes other obligations on a multiarch implementation, which no consensus has been reached on: The upgrade path to multiarch is for the multiarch i386 deb to Conflicts/Replaces: <package that contains the same files>. Which means ia32-libs or ia32-libs-gtk for the old system or ia32-<package> for the ia32-apt-get one. And again with ia32-apt-get there is a huge advantage. As packages convert to multiarch they can be droped in ia32-apt-get on a case by case basis and replaced by the multiarch one. Meaning users don't have to wait for and update 200 packages in a single step. So more than being a stop-gap, I think this tool is actively harmful to the rollout of multiarch. I would vote against any resolution to override the ftp masters' decision to remove this package from the archive. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org