[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] NMU ia32-libs 20100905

Goswin von Brederlow goswin-v-b at web.de
Mon Sep 6 09:58:22 UTC 2010


Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I uploaded ia32-libs to DELAYED/2-days with the following changelog:
>
> ia32-libs (20100905) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * Non-maintainer upload.
>   * Fix ld-linux.so.2 symlink on ia64.  (Closes: #563402)
>   * Update packages (with the versions of squeeze, not sid).
>   * Add libc-bin to get ldd on ia64.
>   * Fix libpulse-simple.so, libpng.so, libpng12.so and libpulse.so
>     symlinks to not be dangling with the new libraries.
>   * Remove udev scripts installed by sane.
>   * Include libnss3-1d, libnspr4-0d, libcurl3, libssh2-1 and libidn11.
>     (Closes: #499043)
>   * Bump libraries:
>     - odbcinst1debian1 -> odbcinst1debian2 (Needed by unixodbc.)
>     - libdirectfb-1.2-0 -> libdirectfb-1.2-9 (Needed by libsdl1.2debian-alsa.)
>   * Dump libraries:
>     - libxtrap6 (No longer available, not even a newer ABI.)
>   * Bump shlibs version from 20080808 (sic!) to 20100905.
>   * Declare `Conflicts' against ia32-libs-core on ia64.  It seems that
>     the intention was to move libraries there, which this upload does
>     not accommodate yet.  (Despite ia32-libs-core anticipating it by
>     using a `Breaks' on a non-existent version.)
>   * Include libavahi-client3, libavahi-common3, libdb4.8, libdrm-intel1,
>     libdrm-radeon1, libgdbm3, libsndfile1, libsqlite3-0, libsysfs2,
>     libts-0.0-0 and libwrap0 to satisfy runtime linking dependencies.
>
>  -- Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org>  Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:45:48 +0200
>
> Debdiff is available on [1].
>
> It might temporarily break ia32-libs-core on ia64, but I consider this
> broken already, as it `Breaks' on a non-existant version of ia32-libs,
> which means that it's not coinstallable with it.
>
> #563402 is of RC severity.  The bug handling of #499043 was less than stellar
> and people are now using bartm's workaround to build their own kind of
> ia32-libs packages for those five libs.[2]
>
> Kind regards,
> Philipp Kern
>
> [1] http://people.debian.org/~pkern/ia32-libs_20090808_20100905.debdiff
> [2] I do agree that the initial severity was inflated, but the ignorance
>     that followed was unhelpful, given that ia32-libs' main use is
>     non-free anyway.

Please remove it asap. I told you on irc about the git repository and
that it was ready to upload.

MfG
        Goswin



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