Hi Steve, On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:11:00AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > For package "gmp", I have two open requests to provide 64-bit versions > of the libraries on ppc. One of the requests also asks for a 32-bit > version on amd64.
I'd like to see 32bit libs for amd64, too. :-) > Is this related to "biarch" or "multiarch"? I can not find any > information on the former, while the wiki page on the latter [1] has a > lot of old design proposals, but no current status? Can someone > summarize the status of these things? Things that have been said about biarch or multiarch often are about changes to the package system (especially dpkg) to better support these cases (yours, but also optimizing for special processors). Currently the common approach taken (at least for 32bit on amd64) is to provide a new package. So taking ncurses as an example there is not only libncurses5, but also a lib32ncurses5 package. Similarly there are libasound2 and lib32asound2. I suggest you to have a look at these. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
