Bug#637232: general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain

2011-08-13 Thread Matthias Klose
On 08/09/2011 07:31 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I got fed up by people reporting bug on libc6, while this problem results > from a decision Debian to implement multiarch. People should work on > implementing a compatibility wrapper and to make upstream toolchain > multiarch aware. Until this is don

Bug#637232: general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain

2011-08-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> I am >> tempted to reassign 629819 to general and merge the bugs. [...] > The bug is closed given we have provided some hints in NEWS.Debian.gz. I > am not sure what reassigning this already closed bug woul

Bug#637232: general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain

2011-08-10 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > I got fed up by people reporting bug on libc6, while this problem results > > from a decision Debian to implement multiarch. People should work on > > implementing a compatibility wrapper and to make ups

Bug#637232: general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain

2011-08-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I got fed up by people reporting bug on libc6, while this problem results > from a decision Debian to implement multiarch. People should work on > implementing a compatibility wrapper and to make upstream toolchain > multiarch aware. Until this is done, this bug should be k

Bug#637232: general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain

2011-08-09 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: general Severity: critical Debian has choosen to implement multiarch, which amongs other things, means that the includes and libraries are moved in a new "multiarch" path. This breaks some upstream applications and non-Debian toolchain. It is possible to workaround some of the issues as