Bug#484599: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#484599: ia32-libs contains several sources and break policy 4.13
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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#484599: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#484599: ia32-libs contains several sources and break policy 4.13
severity 484599 important tags 484599 wontfix thanks 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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
