Control: severity -1 wishlist Sorry, I should have noticed the gdb64 package before reporting... So I'm lowering the severity now.
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 05:53:35PM -0400, Guo Yixuan (郭溢譞) wrote: > Package: gdb-multiarch > Version: 7.7.1+dfsg-5 > Severity: normal > > Dear GDB Maintainers, > > It's quite common to have a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userspace in > Debian, eg powerpc and sparc, where 64-bit userspace is not fully or > officially supported. > > It appears that gdb-multiarch:powerpc fails to debug any ppc64 > programs. Similarly gdb-multiarch:i386 cannot debug amd64 programs. > > Perhaps it's more useful to have gdb-multiarch:powerpc as a meta > package that depends on gdb-multiarch:ppc64. (also for other 32/64 > arch pairs.) > With gdb:powerpc and gdb64:powerpc available, the gdb-multiarch:powerpc package seems rather useless, so it's still make sense to turn it to a meta package to pull in gdb-multiarch:ppc64, if biarch is going to be deprecated(?) in favour of multiarch. Regards, Yixuan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
