Hi, Since you closed the bug with a README entry (basically a WONTFIX), I'll try to explain once again what I think the problem is. If you think I'm annoying you with this, please tell me (through this bug report, to keep it archived for future bug posters like me) what you think is wrong with my technical assessment of the problem, instead of just adding a disclaimer surrounding the bug.
My first point is: if you feel so strongly against supporting amd64/ia64 in your package, at least patch your script so that the generated package (AFTER I've --forced it into submission) has a correct Architecture field, so the user doesn't need to --force dpkg too. If your reasoning behind this is "well, but googleearth is a i386-only binary, so the package has to be too", it's wrong, since ia32-libs is a package full of i386-only binaries that is natively installable on amd64/ia64, precisely to enable 32 bits binaries to run natively on those processors which support both modes of operation. My second point: even though you're free to feel insecure about supporting amd64/ia64, there's AFAIK no technical need to do so, and in fact you're just putting up a barrier for no reason at all. Running a 32 bits binary over ia32-libs should be precisely as running it inside a pure 32 bit debian instalation on an AMD64, so there's no practical difference between supporting it on i386 and amd64. Aside from that, the package ia32-libs was created precisely to enable us - as a distribution - to ease the lives of our users enabling them to run 32 bit code on mixed 64/32 bit systems! Even though its history is a bit "hacky", it's our only working way to do it, and it's used by other packages in the same situation as GoogleEarth (flashplugin, for instance) with no problem. So not supporting it is complicating our users' experience out of fear of, AFAIK, unknown problems. Please bear in mind that I'm only saying this because you gave no solid reasoning behind your posture of not supporting amd64/ia64, only a "if you do this, it's your problem", based on apparently nothing. Again: if there IS a technical reason for it, please let me know. I'm only reacting to what I perceive as a miss-informed WONTFIX. Once again thanks for the script. Asside from our current little squabble, it's a very nice work. Cheers On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 00:09 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the googleearth-package package: > > * Blurb about i386 restrictions in README.Debian (closes: > > #439144) > > -- Leo Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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