Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, the whole purpose of the previous
workround was to deal with unresponsive server administrators: if they were
not unresponsive they could easily have packaged up their i686 images into a
package for x86_64 platforms without even recompiling! The problem was
server administrators who thought the x86_64 base was too small to be worth
worrying about. Those same administrators are unlikely to update their
server software any time soon ("if it aint broke, don't fix it").
I believe it IS a significant Debian regression to remove the Debian-specific
instructions in the README on how to workround unhelpful server
administrators and the scripts to make it easy to do. I also think it is a
bug to remove the previous workrounds during the installation without an easy
way to restore them if the new mechanism does not work.
Graham
P.S. Any idea how/where I can find the previous package so that I can revert
to the previous behaviour?
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