On 2016-12-15 08:38 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 14.12.2016 21:05, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Source: readline
>> Version: 7.0-1
>> Tags: buster sid
>> Control: block 848163 by -1
>>
>> I intend to remove the ncurses multilib packages after the stretch
>> release, see #848163. Since ncurses is required to build readline, this
>> means that the readline multilib packages can then no longer be built.
>>
>> There are no reverse dependencies of the readline multilib packages, so
>> removing them should not be a problem.
>
> Did we stop building gdb64 packages for 32bit architectures?
Yes, since gdb 7.9-1.
> I'd like to delay that change until the buildds can manage dependencies on
> foreign architectures.
Has there been any progress on that? Bug #770925 has not seen any
updates for 16 months. :-(
Which use case of foreign architecture dependencies is handled by the
existing readline multilib packages?
Cheers,
Sven
