Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-03-02 10:43 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Also >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> >> /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 >> and >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> >> /lib/i486-linux-gnu/ld-linux.so.

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Also > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> > /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 > and > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> > /lib/i486-linux-gnu/ld-linux.so.2 > conflict. > > Currently libc6:i386 only Replaces libc6-i

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thibaut Paumard writes: > Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks >> like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. >> >> !!!HURAY!!! >> >> The problem now is the transition: >> >> 1) multiarch a

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder writes: > (replying on -mentors) > Hi Goswin, > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some >> confusion. The runtime linker will not be able to differentiate between >> multiarch or ia32-libs libs. One of /usr/lib32/ and

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dear ftp-master, I wonder if the solution below for transitioning ia32-libs to multiarch would be OK in regards to DAK and testing transition etc. Any technical problems why we couldn't make an exception for the 3 ia32-libs* packages for this? Steve Langasek writes: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 0

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:43:04PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks > > like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. > > !!!HURAY!!! > > The problem now is the transi

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Samuel Thibault writes: > Goswin von Brederlow, le Thu 09 Feb 2012 15:53:35 +0100, a écrit : >> 3) What about stable users? >> >> I don't see a way to transition stable users slowly. As said above I >> intent to request removal of ia32-libs for wheezy. So there will be no >> transition period wh

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > Hi, > > now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks > like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. > > !!!HURAY!!! > > The problem now is the transition: > > 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible >[...] >

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Thu 09 Feb 2012 15:53:35 +0100, a écrit : > 3) What about stable users? > > I don't see a way to transition stable users slowly. As said above I > intent to request removal of ia32-libs for wheezy. So there will be no > transition period where both ia32-libs and multiarch

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(replying on -mentors) Hi Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some > confusion. The runtime linker will not be able to differentiate between > multiarch or ia32-libs libs. One of /usr/lib32/ and > /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/ will be fi

How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition: 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some confusion