Hi Adrian, |--==> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:49:02 +0100, Adrian Knoth <a...@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> said:
AK> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:33:18PM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: >>Hi Adrian, AK> Hi! >>Thanks for having changed this! I'm not too convinced by the idea of not >>including the 32bit library, I guess it would be handy for some users >>and it wouldn't hurt the others. AK> I must confess I'm not up-to-date about the current way of multiarch in AK> Debian. AFAIK, the chroot thing is only the last resort. Then, there was AK> a time with fat (multiarch) binaries (the Apple way), but this seems to AK> be abandoned. Or not, I don't know. AK> Then, there is some magic with ia32-apt-get which installs i386 packages AK> side-by-side on amd64 systems. AK> That's the approach I had in mind, and this would work: an amd64 user in AK> need for 32bit jack clients would have two libjack0 packages, one amd64 AK> and one i386 version. Oh, okay, I had misunderstood that then. I agree this would be a good way to do it, and it's matching what some other packages already do. AK> I don't think there's consensus in Debian to automatically ship 32bit AK> libs in 64bit-packages, but if somebody has better knowledge, I'm happy AK> to add the four lines it'll take to support it. I think the solution you described is the one mostly adopted. There's no pressure to go for it right now though. Ciao! Free _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
