[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#536756: Bug#536756: It really would be nice to still have ia32-libs

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:47:00AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> If you can think of a way let me know but I think it just isn't
> possible for ia32-apt-get to provide ia32-libs/ia32-libs-gtk dummy
> packages. Only solution I can think of is to not only mangle the
> binary-i386/Packages file but also the binary-amd64/Packages file and
> replace any dependcy on ia32-libs or ia32-libs-gtk.

The version in unstable will have some version number; coordinate with
Mark to know what it will be.  Conflict/Replace ia32-libs with the
same epoch and synthesize one with a later epoch.  Does that work?

Sure, it's not 100% robust against future packages, but I think it
covers the highlights.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery