[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#533362: Bug#533362: ia32-libs uninstallable against libc6 2.9-15

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Nick Black <dank at qemfd.net> writes:

> Package: ia32-libs
> Version: 2.7
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> Howdy!
>
> Yesterday, I upgraded to libc6 et al 2.9-14. Upon doing so, ia32-libs
> becomes uninstallable, until libc6 is backed down to 2.9-13. Today's
> 2.9-15 libc6 release does not solve the problem.

libc6-i386 is going through a transition. It will take a while for all
32bit packages to finish.

> As a result, 32-bit ELF binaries cannot be built on amd64 unstable
> without pinning libc6 to 2.9-13.

Nothing should Build-Depend on ia32-libs so no pinning needed for
buildds. And for users just don't let it update libc6-i386 and remove
ia32-libs for now.

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages ia32-libs depends on:
> ii  dpkg                   1.15.2            Debian package management system
> ii  lib32asound2           1.0.20-2          shared library for ALSA applicatio
> ii  lib32gcc1              1:4.4.0-6         GCC support library (32 bit Versio
> ii  lib32ncurses5          5.7+20090523-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  lib32stdc++6           4.4.0-6           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (3
> ii  lib32z1                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - 32 bit runti
> ii  libc6-i386             2.9-13            GNU C Library: 32bit shared librar
> ii  lsb-release            3.2-22            Linux Standard Base version report
>
> ia32-libs recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages ia32-libs suggests:
> pn  ia32-libs-gtk                 <none>     (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information

MfG
        Goswin