On Tuesday 11 September 2007 03:11:38 pm you wrote: > > On Monday 10 September 2007 01:57:07 pm Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > If you *really* want to file a release-critical bug about this > >> > somewhere, file it instead against dpkg for lack of multiarch support > >> > sufficient to allow obsoleting ia32-libs ... > > > > if you *really* want to get your point across, don't forget to cc the > > submitter... > > From: Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did. Well, I TOed you and CCed the bug.
... and i was talking to bdale, the one who said it in the first place. i even made sure i kept him in the attribution lines to keep that clear :) > > but in any event, "lack of $feature to allow obsoleting $package" is not > > really justification for allowing $package to remain in violation of > > policy. > > I wasn't talking about full multiarch. Just being able to link. again, was talking to bdale's response. sorry that my current mua doesn't support group-reply which would have made things clearer... > The other problem and reason for /emul/ia32-linux is <snip ia64 kernel stuff> > So at least on ia64 we can't just abandon /emul/ia32-linux. The best > we could do is link it somewhere else. But then what would we win? And > don't forget the trouble of changing a directory into a symlink. you'd win removing 81MB from the the root partition in a non-standard place and which maybe might otherwise be in use by an unsuspecting admin who believes that his system is fhs-compliant. believe it or not, i found out about /emul after some wierd stuff started happening in my 32-bit chroot for playing windows based games via wine/cedega. for some reason i had decided to call this directory... /emul. sean
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