Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: I understand well, there are efforts to chose

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-20 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: David Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: I thought 'ia32-apt-get' was removed by accident, and you were merely waiting for a sponsor to get it added back. Was it actually removed intentionally? It appears that way. You can read about it on Bug#535645 and the

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-20 Thread A J Stiles
I honestly don't see the need for ia32-apt-get. What's wrong with just, you know, compiling your software for a 64-bit architecture in the first place? The only conceivable reason why anyone might want to run software compiled for 32-bits on a 64-bit machine is that they didn't have the Source

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:12:46PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: I honestly don't see the need for ia32-apt-get. What's wrong with just, you know, compiling your software for a 64-bit architecture in the first place? The only conceivable reason why anyone might want to run software compiled

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:12:46PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: I honestly don't see the need for ia32-apt-get. What's wrong with just, you know, compiling your software for a 64-bit architecture in the first place? So why my I ask are you using debian and not something like gentoo, or I am

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: So I guess the question is how to we organise to get it back into the repro's - the debian way ? I think, if people wish for it, then ftp-master should be asked to put it back again. However, I underrstand, it might cause trouble (as other

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-17 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: So I guess the question is how to we organise to get it back into the repro's - the debian way ? I think, if people wish for it, then ftp-master should be asked to

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: So I guess the question is how to we organise to get it back into the repro's - the debian way ? I think, if

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-17 Thread David Witbrodt
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: I understand well, there are efforts to chose other ways, so ia32-apt-get should not block the

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:44:54PM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:15:23AM -0700, Norval Watson wrote: So, please put it back, at least to experimental. Have a nice weekend Hans-J. Ullrich I agree, I vote for ia32-apt-get Norv I agree to

Re: Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
So I guess the question is how to we organise to get it back into the repro's - the debian way ? I think, if people wish for it, then ftp-master should be asked to put it back again. However, I underrstand, it might cause trouble (as other packages might cause, too!), but this is the kind of

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-14 Thread Norval Watson
- Original Message From: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, 14 August, 2009 8:05:09 PM Subject: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors Dear maintainers, IMO the complete removing of the package ia32-apt-get by the ftp-master is

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-14 Thread Oliver M. Rother
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:05 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: IMO the complete removing of the package ia32-apt-get by the ftp-master is not such good style. Doing so is breaking the system, as some applications need ia32-somewhat packages. For example , I found no way, to install

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-14 Thread Bin Zhang
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Oliver M. Rotherrot...@physik.uni-kiel.de wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:05 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: IMO the complete removing of the package ia32-apt-get by the ftp-master is not such good style. Doing so is breaking the system, as some applications

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:15:23AM -0700, Norval Watson wrote: [snip] How can I help other people? I cannot help them to install needed packages (like nvidia-glx-ia32) as they cannot installed. I cannot correct this, by telling him: Install ia32-apt-get because ftp-master removed

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-14 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:15:23AM -0700, Norval Watson wrote: So, please put it back, at least to experimental. Have a nice weekend Hans-J. Ullrich I agree, I vote for ia32-apt-get Norv I agree to Add me to the list of supporters! Whatever difficulties it was