[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#484599: Bug#484599: ia32-libs contains several sources and break policy 4.13

[Frederik Schueler]

severity 484599 important
tags 484599 wontfix
thanks

Hi!

May I ask you for the motivation to open this bug? 

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:44:50AM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
> ia32-libs contains several sources of software that are already packaged
> and available from the Debian archive.
> [...]
> None of the software contained into ia32-libs are intended to be
> packaged this way.

There are only 2 ways of dealing with this: 

- fix multiarch blockers (binutils) and finish the implementation (not
  for lenny anymore, sorry)

- implement biarch like RedHat and SuSE did, putting all 64bit libs to
  /lib64 and 32bit libs to /lib, and patching dpkg et all to cope with
  this, allowing amd64 to install both amd64 and i386 packages (no way,
  sorry - 4 years too late for this)

But opening RC bugs pointing to the obvious mess doesn't help neither our 
users nor my blood pressure.

Regards
Frederik Schüler

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