On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 18:37 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > > On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 14:56 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > [...] > >> FYI: Since I have recieved no objections from ftp-master nor the release > >> team the plan for ia32-libs now looks as follows: > >> > >> Ia32-libs becomes a transitional package depending on ia32-libs-i386. > >> ia32-libs-i386 is a new transitional package with architecture i386 that > >> depends on all the 32bit libs that used to be in ia32-libs. > >> > >> Package: ia32-libs > >> Architecture: amd64 ia64 > >> Depends: ia32-libs-i386 > >> Description: ia32-libs transitional package > > [...] > > > > Why is this still built for ia64? AFAIK we no longer have any support > > for IA-32 emulation: hardware emulation was removed (since Montecito), > > the kernel support bitrotted (prior to 2.6.32) and has been removed > > (2.6.34), and the software emulator is non-free. > > > > Ben. > > Because nobody told the ia32-libs team about that.
Well now you know. Note, this wasn't a kernel team decision, it's an upstream change that I wasn't aware of until recently. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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