On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:43:04PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> > now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks > > like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. > > !!!HURAY!!! > > The problem now is the transition: > > 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible > >[...] > > What this means is that users that want to use multiarch should remove > > ia32-libs (and lib32* really) soonest. > Couldn't you make ia32-libs a meta-package pulling the multiarch version > of the libs it used to include ? This would require something like Depends: libpam0g:i386, libssl098:i386, [...] and this syntax is not yet supported (intentionally, because there's a lot of policy that needs to be put in place before we allow such things). Ubuntu, faced with the same issue, kludged a bit to make upgrades possible. Package: ia32-libs Architecture: amd64 Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch Package: ia32-libs-multiarch Architecture: i386 Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: libpam0g, [...] This doesn't require us to support :arch syntax for dependencies anywhere yet; it just requires that the i386 arch is enabled via multiarch, and that the package manager is able to resolve the fact that ia32-libs' dependency is satisfied by the only copy of ia32-libs-multiarch available, the i386 one. However, this still introduces at least some of the same policy problems - for instance, britney has to be taught that this is ok if you want to be able to migrate this package to testing automatically. And you need a multiarch-capable package manager installed and configured *before* you can upgrade this package, so that requires a two-step upgrade of some variety: either holding ia32-libs back until after the dist-upgrade, or upgrading the package manager before the dist-upgrade. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- 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/20120209185255.gc17...@virgil.dodds.net
