Bug#691943: libalut: libalut0 cannot be installed together with libalut0:i386 in brokenarch

[Vincent Cheng]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:22 AM, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> user multiarch-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> usertags 691943 multiarch
>> retitle 691943 libalut0: Please convert to multiarch
>> tag 691943 confirmed
>> thanks
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:23 AM, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>>> As the subject says, libalut0 cannot be installed together with
>>> libalut0:i386 in brokenarch.
>>
>> That's because libalut0 (and the -dev package) haven't been
>> multiarch-ified yet. Multiarch is a release goal, but it's probably
>> too late in the release cycle to be converting packages to multiarch,
>> so this will probably be done post-freeze.
>
> That confirms that 32bit support will not be available in the next
> release.  That makes the next release obsolete for everyone who needs
> it.  Who needs 32bit support and runs stable will either have to remain
> with the current release or switch to unstable.

"32-bit support" is still available in Debian (i386 isn't going to be
deprecated in Debian anytime soon), and users who wish to install i386
packages on a Debian amd64 system can easily do so via multiarch. I'm
afraid I don't see what your concern is? AFAIK, libalut was never
included in ia32-libs in the first place, so this specific library
package was never installable as a 32-bit package on a 64-bit system
anyways, hence the status quo hasn't changed at all. The vast majority
of libs that used to be included in ia32-libs have been converted to
multiarch already.

> Good job.

Thank you! I'm glad that you appreciate all the hard work that Debian
devs put into Debian, by their own will and on their own free time. :)

> I hope you put big warnings all over the Debian website and into the
> announcements so that everyone considering to upgrade at least has an
> idea of what they are getting into.

If you would like to contribute to the release notes, please contact
debian-doc at lists.debian.org or file a bug report against the
release-notes pseudo-package.

Regards,
Vincent