Hello Phill,

Phill Whiteside [2013-12-29 18:29 +0000]:
> and then we get the plug pulled for 32bit library?....

ia32-libs has always been a royal pain, gaping security hole (because
it never really received security updates) and a hack. It was dropped
in favor of proper "multi-arch" [1] so that you can install the real
i386 binary packages on an amd64 machine.

Martin

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

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