Hi, Am Dienstag, den 28.06.2011, 15:32 +0100 schrieb Steve Langasek: > > > No special handling has been proposed for nss modules beyond > > > that - though this is already a substantial improvement over the status > > > quo, > > > where about half our nss modules have biarch versions available and the > > > other half don't. > > > The nss modules without support currently mostly do so because they pull > > in some other libraries (which usually also opens another can of worms > > anyway). > > The following NSS modules are not available in a biarch configuration today: > > [..] > libnss_gw_name.so.2 > libnss_rainbow.so.2 > > The only nss modules outside of eglibc that *are* available in biarch today > are nss_ldap, nss_mdns*, nss_myhostname, and nss_extrausers.
nss_gw_name would be if the depedency libnl had multilibs support. > > For those modules that have support right now, multiarch will mean every > > single user has to remember that every time something will pull in a new > > architecture they also have to install the nss module for that > > architecture. That is quite a regression to the current status quo. > > libnss-myhostname and libnss-extrausers ship the biarch versions of the > module in the same package. libnss_mdns builds a separate lib32nss-mdns > biarch package, and biarch libnss_ldap is only available in ia32-libs. So > this is FUD. Earlier today I had converted libnss-myhostname to multi-arch, so the package will only ship one module per package. I tend to agree with Bernhard that it would be nice if it were made easy for the user (e.g. a user on amd64 who runs some application in wine and is surprised that the foo.local addresses stop working). But what can we do? I don’t see any “easy” solution that would work right away. Maybe add a new field or new value to the Multi-Arch field indicating that this package should be installed for each foreign architecture set in dpkg.conf, if possible? (Does not sound good to me, but maybe its a discussion starter.) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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