Hello lee, lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Claudius Hubig <[email protected]> writes: > > > the advantage that not one big package has to be updated each time > > one of the libraries it contains changes, but only one small(-ish) > > library package. > > And which packages do I need to have installed to get 32bit support > working again as it was before they broke it? Just telling users they > must switch to brokenarch, leaving them screwed without 32bit support > and saying "we're not going to fix it because we don't want to update > the packages anymore and will remove them" is *not* an advantage.
The packages your 32-bit application depends on. Simple as that :) And because these packages are also 32-bit packages, your application can easily define which it needs and which it doesn’t need, rather than having to define a dependency on ia32-libs (and possibly other ia32-libs-* packages) of which it only needs a few libraries. Best, Claudius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
