[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#680317: Bug#680317: Bug#680317: Uninstallable due dependency to unexisting package: i32-libs-gtk-i386

[Marco Nenciarini]

Il giorno lun, 09/07/2012 alle 13.08 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst ha scritto:
> On Mon, July 9, 2012 11:09, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> > I would be happy to help sponsoring, but I see another problem: the
> > package is listed only amd64 in buildd's Packages-arch-specific file
> > [1].
> > So It will not be picked up for i386 and therefore it will not work.
> >
> > [1]https://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/sid/Packages-arch-specific
> >
> > As a workaround I've searched if there is a clean way to do a mixed-arch
> > upload (i386+amd64) but I found nothing, so you should ask Bastian Blank
> > (in cc) who did a mixed upload for ia32-libs version 20120616 [2]
> 
> I would recommend against sponsoring it in current form since the
> following fix was already done in 20120702:
>    * Fix typo in ia32-libs-gtk-i386 dependency. (Closes: #680317)
> and the changelog entry for that version also misses (this is due to a
> race condition between Goswin and me; and me not having git commit
> access).

You are absolutely right.

However, I think it's important to find a way to solve the problem of
missing i386 packages, because at the moment both the ia32-libs and
ia32-libs-gtk packages are unusable for the majority of users.

Regards,
Marco


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