On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 20:45 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 06:47:50PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > My recollection (which might be wrong, but a quick look at release > > notes seems to support it with 11.04 having multiarch 2 years > > before > > Wheezy) is that Canonical led the way with the multiarch effort in > > Ubuntu, and Debian followed with lots of huffing, puffing and > > grumbling. > > As a Canonical employee who was involved in the multiarch design work > at > the time, this is a pretty unfair-to-Debian version of history. Yes, > some things took a bit longer to get organized on the Debian side for > various reasons, but the design and implementation work was done in > collaboration with key people in Debian and was definitely better for > it; Guillem and Raphaël in particular did a lot of hard work on dpkg > and > dpkg-dev respectively. (Also, several of us on the Canonical side > regarded ourselves as having one foot firmly in each camp; I > certainly > didn't see it as a confrontational sort of thing where we were having > to > drag Debian along with us - rather the contrary, there was a lot of > enthusiasm in Debian for it.)
So my recollection was indeed wrong - I'll happily retract the comment with apologies, thank you for correcting me. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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