On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 16:09 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I think the benefits of not including monolithic ia32-libs in wheezy > far outweigh the potential small regression. Of course, the remaining > packages can still be converted later if so desired.
I've finally found a chunk of time to spend looking at this; apologies for the delay. For the purposes of testing, I debootstrapped an amd64 squeeze chroot, installed the "standard" and "desktop" tasks along with ia32-libs{,-gtk} and then dist-upgraded to wheezy. Finally I added i386 as a second architecture and installed ia32-libs{,-gtk} from sid. This lead to apt wanting: 35 upgraded, 197 newly installed, 1 to remove and 161 not upgraded. Need to get 124 MB of archives. I also ended up with debconf prompts for setting up lib{nss,pam}-ldap:i386, as the packages weren't installed on amd64 (only libldap-2.4-2 was present beforehand). I do wonder if these might confuse users, although I'm not sure if there's a way to avoid them. Starting with a fresh wheezy chroot with standard+desktop installed, adding i386 and then ia32-libs*/sid yields similar results. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org