[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Future of ia32-libs-* post-wheezy

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Op woensdag 8 mei 2013 11:38:41 schreef Goswin von Brederlow:
> I don't think that is a good idea. With multiarch in place nobody
> should install amd64 packages for 32bit software anymore but instead
> install the i386 packages. I seriously doubt there is any 32bit
> software that has only amd64 packages but no i386 packages. 3rd party
> software [1] does not need to transition, only users need to.
> 
> So the need for ia32-libs in new installs should be zero. And on
> upgrade people will already have ia32-libs installed if they still
> need it. And they only need it if they haven't yet reinstalled 32bit
> software from the i386 packages, i.e. they were lazy.
> 
> Removing ia32-libs from jessie would I think raise the awareness of
> multiarch, force the issue and reduce the number of bugreports about
> ia32-libs not quite working or lacking certain libs and such. While
> removing it today maybe isn't optimal I certainly think that for the
> jessie release we should remove it. So somewhere between today and the
> next freeze it should be removed.

Right. I've checked the archive and only teamspeak-client depended on ia32-
libs. As it was orphaned, I've made a QA upload to convert it to multi-arch.

I've also asked ftp-masters to change the section of ia32-libs-gtk from libs 
to oldlibs.

Hopefully this will help to get third party packages converted.


Cheers,
Thijs
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