Γιώργος Πάλλας skrev:
Michael Ekstrand wrote:
The current ia32-libs package in unstable [...]
fixes the problem.  [...]  So either update to the Sid version or wait until it
trickles to testing.
By the way, does anybody know why they had to break things first? I did 
not expect that from debian!
In this case, I believe some people (for technical reasons) disliked the 
current solution for ia32-*, and wanted it removed as a signal that it 
was not fit for a stable release. I think the release goal called 
multiarch for the next stable release is soppsed to be the good solution 
to the problems ia32-* currently solves (works around?).
Then I believe some other people felt that the current way of doing 
things was needed (although it had issues) until multiarch was in place, 
so they made sure it was  reinserted into the archive.
My impression is that the present state of ia32-* and the recent 
handling of it should be seen as an exception to the general rule of 
trying not to break testing, and that you should not expect similar 
issues for other packages in the future.
But I am just a user reading mailing lists, so I may have misunderstood 
the discusion.

/ johan


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