Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-13 Thread Aron Xu
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:00, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Aron Xu [2012-02-09 01:22 +0800]: >> Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many >> of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if >> endianness were not something to care

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch

2012-02-09 Thread Aron Xu
ness on install. That way the "performance impact" argument is non > existant. > Yes, it's "possible", but it requires additional work for both upstream/debian maintainer to care the case a lot. IMHO this idea is not very constructive for finding a better solutio

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-08 Thread Aron Xu
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 01:35, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 08/02/12 17:22, Aron Xu wrote: >> Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many >> of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if >> endianness were not something to c

Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-08 Thread Aron Xu
great to have some mechanism to handle such kind of problems in Debian, to avoid forcing those data to be placed into arch:any package. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta