Ah, Ok. I haven't updated any of my systems to 9.10, so I didn't realize that 32 bit compatibility had been removed... Given that, I probably just won't update since it would break adobe air and all my third party stuff...
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:46 AM, C de-Avillez <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:30 -0800, Brendan Miller wrote: >> >>> This bug more or less makes apt-get unusable on 64 bit systems and has >>> been in for a long time now: >>> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/402833 >>> >> >> Is this still a problem in Karmic? I don't have that file on my system, >> and a search of packages available doesn't give any package named >> "ia32-libs-tools". It came to Ubuntu Jaunty (Universe) via Debian unstable. >> It was also -- and consequently -- dropped from Ubuntu. >> > This package has been dropped from Debian -- completely, including > removing the source packages. Debian considered (right or wrong, it is > not the point here) the approach kludgy/unmaintainable. Additionally, > the Debian maintainer orphaned the package. See [1] for the thread in > Debian. The consideration is that the 'multiarch' package will > (eventually) replace it. >> Not saying it shouldn't be fixed in Jaunty, I'm just wondering if >> there's an issue in Karmic as well--if so I think it must be different >> (different package names, etc.?) than the Jaunty issue. >> >> >> > As already stated in this thread, given that the package was removed > (and orphaned), it will need a volunteer willing to work on it for > Ubuntu -- for Jaunty only. > > Cheers, > > ..C.. > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
