Steve Langasek wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Bootstrapping > > The current ld.so doesn't yet know about the final path (on i386), so > libraries can't switch to using it or they'll fail to be found by the > runtime linker. > > Since we don't want to wait until the next release cycle before being able > to proceed to step 5, this does mean that a transitional dependency is > needed to ensure a multiarch-compatible ld.so is unpacked before libraries > unpack to /lib/i386-linux-gnu. [...] > If you think this is important to document in policy anyway, I can prepare a > patch.
Yes, please. I agree with you that the normative component is already taken care of by "don't be buggy", so if can be written in the "informative" style, that would be great. Also I suppose some discussion on debian-devel has already taken place to make this pre-dependency possible without worrying about policy §3.5? If not, I'd be interested in either an explicit exception or the perfunctory discussion on -devel, whichever is easier. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110329222159.GA14578@elie
