Thanks for the answer, Andrei, but something is still not completely clear. > > When you purge a package (any package) all its files should be removed > by dpkg, but sometimes packages generate files on install and don't > clean up on removal[1]. This is usually a bug which should be reported. > If it's severe enough it should be fixed before the release of wheezy. >
Yes, I know that. But removing (and purge ia32-libs) before change to multiarch will also remove all 32-bit-apps. But an upgrade will install a newer package of ia32-libs + stay the 32-bit-apps + install 32-bit-libs from i386. What happens to the old ones from the former ia32-libs? Will they be overwritten? Newly linked? Purged? Of course, I can deinstall and reinstall the 32-bit-apps after moving to multiarch. But is it really necessary? > [1] this does not include files in a user's $HOME and files that contain > user data (e.g. databases stored in /var created by a database > software). If you watch dpkg output carefully you will notice warnings > like "did not remove directory ... because not empty", so that you can > take a look at the remaining files and decide if you still need them or > not. > Yes, this is how it always was. For these purposes there was "mundus" developped, but it is still not in debian. I tried mundus today, but it still lacks. Mundus mourns about too old version of gambas3 from debian, it needs a newer version of it. However, this is no debian problem at all! Maybe sometimes it will appear in debian. I can wait. :)) > Hope this helps, > Andrei Greets Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201212081417.55469.hans.ullr...@loop.de
