clone 491167 -1 retitle -1 strace: please provide separate strace64 package severity -1 wishlist thanks
Hi! On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:25PM +0200, Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote: > strace pulls in libc6-amd64 on my systems which is useless on most of my > current desktops (Pentium 2 at university, Sempron at work and Athlon XP > at home). Strace ships a second, 64bit binary to trace 64bit processes on a system with i386 userland and 64bit kernel. > Is this really necessary? I assume the purpose of libc6-amd64 - like > libc6-i686 - is to let owners of the appropriate hardware to be able to > install those packages? Yes it is. The alternative would be an strace64 package for the 3 concerned architectures. I'll ponder about this option. Best regards Frederik Schüler -- ENOSIG
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