(replying on -mentors) Hi Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some > confusion. The runtime linker will not be able to differentiate between > multiarch or ia32-libs libs. One of /usr/lib32/ and > /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/ will be first in the search path and libs will > be taken from there preferably. The multiarch dirs come before the biarch dirs. See glibc-package r4683 for details (prefix biarch-compat.conf with zz_ so that is is sorted last, 2011-05-24). [...] > Are there any objections to adding a debconf message to ia32-libs with a > short message and reference to a Debian wiki page on how to transition > to multiarch? Yes, as devref explains, that is debconf abuse. Please use NEWS.Debian.gz and README.Debian instead. [..] > 4) Should we have some Breaks/Conflicts between multiarch and bi-arch > packages? No, I don't see why. Thanks for your work and hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120209152634.GA5575@burratino
