Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:05:42PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Taken together, this guarantees the newer libs would always be found before >> > the older libs, so there's no need to do extra special-casing for those >> > libs >> > that were previously available in biarch form. > >> Then any old programm might break. And you know how long 3rd party >> packages stay around. > > Huh?
Say you have acrobat reader installed which depend on ia32-libs-gtk. You also have libgtk2.0 (i386) installed with a newer version that breaks acrobat reader (like it did last year). Then acrobat reader will use the newer libgtk and break despide the dependencies all being correct. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org