Hi Sven, It may be suitable to revisit removing readline multilibs. During DebConf Brest we (and that includes Matthias) reached consensus that the long term goal is getting rid of multilib.
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:32:32AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Is there any problem building a 64-bit gdb on i386 after installing > libreadline-dev:amd64, libncurses5-dev:amd64 and possibly other useful > packages to give gdb more bells and whistles - the gdb64 package was > equivalent to gdb-minimal? Yes, building gdb64 should work with multiarch libraries, but we still cannot upload such a thing to the archive due to the required cross architecture dependencies. Arguably, we didn't have gdb64 in the archive since quite a while and outside the archive such dependencies can be dealt with. I argue that removing these multilibs is probably ok now also considering that i386 is dropping more and more features (linux kernel, qemu, science packages, ...) already. Helmut
