[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#369411: alsa-lib: FTBFS on AMD64 (32-bit link problems)

[James Troup]

Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006, James Troup wrote:
>> > Also Ubuntu *DOES* have this patch. Matthias has added it in version
>> > 2.17-1ubuntu1, and the patch is called
>> > debian/patches/122_x86_64_i386_biarch.dpatch.
>> That's edgy, not dapper.
>
>  Your point being?

*sigh*

My point being the patch is not in dapper, but dapper has 32-bit alsa
on amd64.  Therefore it's wasn't obvious to me why this patch is
necessary to compile 32-bit alsa in Debian.  [Yes Debian has an
utterly different (and utterly retarded) path for 32-bit libraries,
but that's not relevant.]

Non-obvious patches that deviate from upstream don't get blindly
applied without better explanation.  Yes, I could have asked for it,
yes Aurel has now provided some additional information, but that
doesn't change history.

All the fact that it's in edgy demonstrates is that Matthias is more
relaxed about adding patches to binutils than I am.

-- 
James