[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#563402: Bug#590313: RM: sun-java5/stable [ia64] -- ROM; arch ia64 cannot execute i386 binaries

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Fri, August 27, 2010 13:17, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, July 25, 2010 21:23, Torsten Werner wrote:
>> - sun-java6/stable [ia64]
>> - sun-java5/stable [ia64]
>>
>> because the ia64 architecture on Debian cannot execute i386 binaries
>> currently. Please check bug #563402 for more information. The package in
>> unstable cannot transition to testing because of that issue and we have
>> (ia64) packages with security issues in stable.
>
> With thanks to DSA for making the ia32 ld.so setup sane (working around
> #563402), I got the packages to mostly build in meurlo's lenny chroot
> earlier today.
>
> However, both packages die with

Having had the error of my ways pointed out r.e. the lack of -jdk packages
on ia64, I can confirm that building both packages with dpkg-bp -B now
works on merulo (after the aforementioned fixing by DSA).

Regards,

Adam