On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:46:38AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The specific problem here, judging from the thread, is that these tools > create packages in the ia32-* namespace that aren't in the archive, and > people who then install those packages on their system will have trouble > with upgrades unless real multiarch packages add Conflicts with them? But > the library maintainers both don't know that they exist, and would need to > add Conflicts on packages that have never been in the archive?
Essentially correct, yes. The fallback would be to /assume/ they exist, and have each multiarch library package add Conflicts against the expected biarch package name; I don't accept that this is an appropriate burden to impose on individual library maintainers as part of the multiarch implementation, which should otherwise only require a small debian/rules change and a single Multi-Arch: yes field. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
