[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The only valid reasons for not including it are lack of LSB compliance >> (which can still be easily achieved with a i386 chroot) ...
The LSB needs to be changed to sanely implement compliance to multiple LSB archs on a single system. That is a larger issue affection i386/amd64, sparc/sparc64, mips/mips64/mipsN32, mipel/mipsel64/mipselN32, powerpc/powerpc64/i386 (qemu), alpha/i386 (quemu), i386-linux/i386-kfreebsd and posisbly i386-hurd/i386-linux. Only complying to the main LSB for the arch (i.e. amd64 for amd64) doesn't seem to be a problem for any of the other cases so it should not be a case for amd64. Also I think amd64 is compatible but not compliant to i386 and amd64 LSB. Meaning ia32 and amd64 LSB compliant programs will run on pure64. But ia32 binaries (which you can't even build) or amd64 libraries from pure64 might not run on an ia32 compliant system (library debs don't install into an lsb compliant palce on non debian). The other thing needed to fix the LSB issue is a major change in dpkg/apt that certainly won't be accepted befor sarge it released as well as changes to _every_ source containing a library (upstream source and debian/rules changes). Also something not fit to be done before sarge is released. >> ... and mirror space >> (which will be saved using partial mirroring). > > Why not just fix these instead of using hacks? As to the mirror space that problem aparently is being worked on while its progress or ETA remains unclear. Last statement recieved sounded like "It's ready". MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]