On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:36:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Specifically, the plan is that any package in wheezy shipping a runtime > library in a multiarch directory should declare a Pre-Depends on the > metapackage 'multiarch-support'. This package will be built from eglibc > source, and for each architecture it will depend on the appropriate version > of libc that implements support for the corresponding multiarch lib > directory.[1]
> I'm reasonably confident that we have this right, having discussed this with > the release team and tested it under "live fire" in Ubuntu; but as Jonathan > Nieder rightly points out in the policy bug, policy asks for Pre-Depends to > be discussed on debian-devel, not just on debian-release. > Does anyone see a better way to achieve this result, that I've overlooked? > Will adding this pre-depends on multiarch-support cause any problems that we > haven't yet identified? So we have a consensus of one here on the list? I should make a point of always bringing up policy proposals in parallel to ongoing threads about network manager, apparently it's the easiest way to meet the requirement for posting to debian-devel without having to actually discuss anything ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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