At Sat, 26 Apr 2003 03:01:58 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 25 April 2003 19:36, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > You know this will probably require modifications in *thousands* of > > packages ? > > Yes, I fully understand the impact. I've done it for half the packages > in something similar to Red Hat 9 on s390x and we're in the currently > building a minimal sid with /lib64 on s390x.
BTW, is it really _good direction_ for supporting x86-64 ? I think this is really important decision. We're standing at a serious turning point. This issue is related with other arches, and I concern the future binaries/libraries compatibility. In addition, should all debian developers know about it when he packages libraries ? Regards, -- gotom
