Bug#961183: metis: providing a 64-bit build

[Drew Parsons]

Doing it through a formal transition request is sensible. There's a 
backlog of numerical library upgrades (some still in the NEW queue) 
waiting for bullseye to get released. Perhaps we can run this transition 
at the same time as the others, process them all as a bulk transition.

We'll set it up in experimental first, of course.

I'll prepare the list of affected packages.

Drew



On 2021-06-05 17:07, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Well, theoretically we can do it. But we need to do some kind
> of a transition for all dependencies.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Anton
> 
> Am Sa., 5. Juni 2021 um 13:36 Uhr schrieb Drew Parsons
> <dparsons at debian.org>:
> 
>> ...<skip>
>> I think the best solution is to "break" the builds of client
>> applications by moving the standard header from /usr/include/metis.h
>> to /usr/include/metis/metis.h.  Then client applications will need
>> to
>> be updated to add -I/usr/include/metis when using the standard
>> build.