Hi Efa, I have triaged this bug yesterday but wanted to add some words to explain.
What you ask for to me seems like you want more multiarch [1] implemented in libsdl (and others). That is in itself no bad request, but there are a few constraints to that. - The release target surely would be a future release (you filed that bug against bionic, and I'd want in no way set wrong expectations). Even if things are changed that will only happen in a future release as it would not qualify for an SRU. - for the particular case - libsdl1.2 was dropped out of main (as there is libsdl2, but more so things migrated away from sdl to gtk). Therefore I doubt this gets ever very important for Ubuntu overall. - For changes like that it is highly unlikely that we derive from Debian as the maintenance of this as a delta is a lot of effort. We usually would implement and submit it to Debian (if it is important to Ubuntu) or just ask Debian what they think about it (so that they can implement it if they want). So on this case you might file a bug in Debian and let us know about the bug number for tracking. I can see that this case in general (not for libsdl in particular) becomes slightly more important with the dropping of i386 installation media. But in many cases instead of multiarch for combined 32/64 usage on one machine I have seen containers (e.g. [3]) as the superior solution. While multiarch is nice, containers let you run all on the same machine with the benefit of both environments not affecting each other in any way. P.S. I have subscribed Steve in case he wants to share any of his much deeper multiarch knowledge to this case. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates [3]: https://stgraber.org/2016/03/11/lxd-2-0-blog-post-series-012/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1843126 Title: include files conflict with i386 version: split dev packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsdl1.2/+bug/1843126/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
