Bug#259640: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#259640: libxml2 - please provide 64bit libs on s390 and sparc

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On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:50:40PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> I'm not in favor of applying changes for 64 bits support provided that,
> as you say, there is no policy nor common practice, and also provided
> that multi-architecture support is supposed to come some day to address
> these problems, and that even though libxml2 would be compile in 64, you
> would need the same kind of changes for all the packages linked against
> libxml2,

Nope, the patch builds a different package with the 64bit libs which
does not interfere with the other binaries.

> libxml2, which is not likely to happen soon, and even if that happens I
> think multi-arch support will have superseeded it.

multiarch will need a lot of time and I want to provide GFS-support
(Global file system, http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/) on s390 and
sparc which have the best hardware support for this but needs 64bit
binaries.

> Anyways, your patch adds a Build-Depends upon lib64z1-dev, I can't see it=
 on
> packages.debian.org...

file://merkel.debian.org/org/ftp.debian.org/queue/new/

Bastian

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