* Simon McVittie: > On 23/08/15 11:31, Florian Weimer wrote: >> For example, shipping i386 binaries instead of amd64 binaries is not >> acceptable, even though these programs might run with the default >> Debian kernel. > > This does not match current practice in all cases: multilib (lib32gcc, > etc.) has a lot of i386 libraries in x86_64 packages and similar > situations. Things like wine and mingw also don't work without foreign > binaries, although those at least aren't binaries from a Debian > architecture.
Shouldn't those go away because we now have true multiarch? > Is there a problem you are aiming to solve with this requirement? Do any > maintainers not realise that packaging wrong-architecture binaries > without a good reason is undesired? Yes, smlnj.
